Summary+of+Key+Concepts

=__Summary of Key Concepts__= ===The IB TOK course uses the following key concepts I will give a quick list below and then beneath that you can find a much fuller explanation of each concept excerpted from the "Theory of Knowledge Course Companion" Eileen Dombrowski, Lena Rotenburg, Mimi Bick, Oxford University Press 2007.u===

1. Perception - the five senses: you saw it, heard it, felt it, tasted it, or smelled it.
===2. Language - the phenomena, idea or concept was described or conveyed to you through a language. "Language" includes any symbolic standardized representation of experience: musical notation, mathematical symbols, pictographs, road signs etc.===

3. Emotion - feelings, including faith and (possibly) intuition
===4. Reason - this includes the all important identification of premises (especially the missing ones i.e. the unspoken assumptions on which the argument/conclusions depend), and the many processes of reasoning: inductive, deductive, analogical, creative, hypothetico-deductive, generalization and classification, plus the informal fallacies i.e. common mistakes in reasoning (these are not described below, but full information can be found in the Theory of Knowledge Course Companion, chapter 2.5 and chapter 4)===

= Types of knowing =

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