ways+of+knowing

Perception
What are the primary ways in which we know the world around us?

Are there stages to perception?
Here are some recognized stages. Define them and find examples:  -filtering: hearing the teacher only  -halo and horn effect:

 -organizing:  -stereotyping  -filling in information  -interpretation

Perceptual Illusions
Is your perception always accurate? Provide examples of when it is trustworthy, and when it might not be.

Are people’s perceptions the same? How do you know this? Does this invalidate your or another person’s experience?

Why might misperceptions occur?

Selectivity of Perception
How do we validate our perceptions? Do we ignore some and rely more heavily on others? Why?

What things might affect how you interpret your perceptions? Is this selectivity conscious or unconscious?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Can you provide reasons why people perceive things differently? Explain

Seeing and Believing
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What do you create from your perceptions?

In this case, one could ask, what belief or models affect our perception?

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is the underlying nature of our emotions? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Common: Emotion is what we feel, for example if one cries, it is because they are sad, and they are sad because they have just experienced some unfortunate situation for example if Abdullah's guitar string broke, he would be upset or sad. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Uncommon: Emotion is like a tree diagram meaning that the tree starts at emotion, develops into how you feel then into the reaction to your emotion. This reaction could drop another seed or in other words start another tree of emotion. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">class: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Instinctive feeling- chemicals and influence bye environment. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Feeling caused by events. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> What we feel e.g. crying <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Feelings affected by background <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Spectrum of feelings within people <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> From our hearts - unconscious feelings <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Cycle: use perception to process <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Brain -> heart -> perception <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Like a tree diagram <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Metaphor - reaction to emotion could come down and be a seed for another tree cycle <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Perceive first as we face + feel emotions § <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When you feel an emotion, how do you know you are feeling that way? Can you explain why you are having this emotion? I believe that almost no one can explain how they know they feel a certain way, but most people can tell that they are feeling someway because of the way they start behaving. For example if one is saddened, he or she will express it in a way or another by either crying ( which is most common), listening to a specific type of music, talk to someone they are close with, etc. Usually emotions are triggered by the way we perceive situations or biological or medical reasons. For example a student may get a bad yet best grade in class on a test and they may be saddened if they perceive it as getting a bad grade but if they perceive it as getting the best grade in class then they would probably feel differently.

Reason
Are you always reasonable in your reasoning? What does that mean?

The Nature of Reasoning
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What exactly is reasoning?

What does the process of reasoning entail?

Is there good and bad reasoning?

Is there a history of reasoning?

Types of Reasoning
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What are inductive and deductive processes of reasoning? What is informal reasoning? @http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/dedind.php answer:inductive when experience to generalization and deductive when a general idea to specific experience

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Is reasoning done to produce knowledge about something specific, or something in general? How is this done? Provide examples of each.

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answer:it can work for both because when we take info from something specific it can tell us something general about it and if we take something general we can take specific and both are info witch is knowledge =====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What role does time play in judging the truth value of your reasoning, whether inductive or deductive?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How do you know if you are doing it correctly or not? When is it valid or invalid? When is it true or false? Does it always lead to truth? Create syllogisms and let's see - visit @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism for examples.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Are all types of reasoning reliable? How do you know this? Check these fallacies: let's find examples in your life of when they occur - @http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is the relationship of reasoning to knowledge, the creation or discovery of knowledge, and ultimately, to truth?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is the difference between empiricism and rationalism? Which do you think explains reality with greater accuracy? Provide examples of each. Visit: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What sorts of things might influence reasoning?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> What is the relationship of the other WOKs to reasoning?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What are inductive and deductive processes of reasoning? What is informal reasoning? @http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/dedind.php

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Is reasoning done to produce knowledge about something specific, or something in general? How is this done? Provide examples of each.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How do you know if you are doing it correctly or not? When is it valid or invalid? When is it true or false? Does it always lead to truth? Create syllogisms and let's see - visit @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism for examples.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Are all types of reasoning reliable? How do you know this? Check these fallacies: let's find examples in your life of when they occur - @http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is the relationship of reasoning to knowledge, the creation or discovery of knowledge, and ultimately, to truth?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is the difference between empiricism and rationalism? Which do you think explains reality with greater accuracy? Provide examples of each. Visit: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What sorts of things might influence reasoning?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> What is the relationship of the other WOKs to reasoning?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Possible Activity: Logic formulations – use Oxford text p. 68-72 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Also do activity p. 73: find an editorial article and identify the premise and conclusion. Share and compare.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Truth requires an examination of content and meaning

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> ** Does language change? How? When & Why? Pink Waves ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> ** How: ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> - Formal-slang <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> - Translation: from one language to anther <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> - Interpretation of definition within relationships <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> - Time eg: Chinese & Egyptian symbols <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> ** When: ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> - Migration: depending on where you live and what country <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> ** Why: ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> - Ease <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> - Cool (part of your identity) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> - Personal cods <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> - Changes according to stuff changing (possibly technology) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> - Influence <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> ** Examples ** : <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> R u there? <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> ASAP <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> TTYL <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> TYT <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> CYA how r u k

<span style="color: #ff1e1e; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Reflection: <span style="color: #ff1e1e; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> A routine for noticing truth occasions <span style="color: #ff1e1e; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> Key Prompts:

our topic was about if language changes. our group (pink waves) clearly stated that its true that language changes through countries and time from-to: - Formal-slang - Translation: from one language to anther - Interpretation of definition within relationships - Time eg: Chinese & Egyptian symbols Which for the time in class i thought was totally right, but now thinking about it now. language doesn't truly and completely change. the definition of language is: the method of human communication
 * 1) <span style="color: #ff1e1e; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Identify a topic or situation. Is this idea clearly true, or false, or where between the two?

so written or spoken, Indian or Arabic, 21 century or 19's. its a language. they used it to communicate. so looking from anthor view. maybe languge does not change because we use it the same way. who knows?!

What makes it so certain or uncertain? (or almost certainly true or false) it depends on the way you look at it. if you look at it as Language: Words Letters then yes. but if you look at it as a way to communicate and the message then no.

How important is it? What makes it important? (important or not so important)

important, it is after all the biggest way to communicate with humans. its important to know if it changes, because we need to go along with time and countries.

TREES; the topic is whether language is figurative or literal and we said it can be both it depends on the situation for example sarcasm can be figurative because they mean something else. i would rate my topic as between the two.what differentiates it of either being figurative or literal is how the information is understood or how it could be understood.for example black eye somebody may understand it as a color of the eye is black or someone else can understand it as has been hit on this area .language is very important as it is the tool of getting information and it can also be like a advantage .a guy that knows language can play with everything he says.

10 points: -It depends on the situation, whether a person is being serious or sarcastic -Confusion between literal and figurative can lead to misconceptions -Can be literal or figurative depending on how people would interpret it -People sometimes misunderstand what you say and take it literally -We use figurative to add humor -For figurative, we play with words -Literal is the way you describe what it is -Figurative is when you play with words by creating metaphors -Examples: -When you spill a bag of beans -When you tell someone the full details of a story -Someone's eyes (iris) are black -A person was punched in the face and has a black eye -The sky is blue on a Monday -A sad monday -A rabbit's foot -Can also mean luck
 * Spill the beans
 * Black eye
 * Blue Monday
 * Rabbit's foot

Is this idea clearly true, or false, or where between the two?

-True

What makes it so certain or uncertain? (or almost certainly true or false)

-Because people use both literal and figurative on a daily basis

How important is it? What makes it important? (important or not so important)

-There is a big difference between literal and figurative language. I think people should be able to differentiate the two, and use it on the right time. Like if your on an important meeting, you would use literal and not figurative because you are meant to be serious.