Theory of Knowledge Vocabulary List: Ways of Knowing: Language

1. Ambituity
Know what these terms mean as they
2. Back translation
relate to the particular areas of ToK and be 3. Body language
able to use them in your essay and 4. Classification
presentation—You will get a better score. 5. Communication
6. Connotation
P.S. All of these can be found in 7. Denotation
8. Emotive meaning
your Lagemann text
9. Euphemism
Problem of Knowledge 10. Grammar
11. Idiom
1. Argument adignorantiam 12. Irony
2. Certainty coherence 13. Linguistic determinism
3. Common sense 14. Metaphor
4. Confirmation bias 15. Sapir-Worf hypothesis
5. Evidence 16. Stereotype
6. Gullibility 17. Weasel words
7. Judgment
8. Mental map Ways of Knowing: Perception
9. Open-mindedness
1. Common-sense realism
10. Paradox of cartography
2. Empiricism
11. Paranormal phenomena
3. Figure and ground
12. Relativism (know the dangers of and the
4. Phenomenalism
strengths of)
5. Scientific realism
13. Skepticism (what are the concerns associated
6. Sensation
with it)
7. Visual agnosia
14. Ways of knowing (what are they?)
8. Visual grouping
The Nature of Knowledge
Ways of Knowing: Reason
15. Authority worship
1. Adhominem
16. Context
2. Argument ad ignorantiam
17. Culture
3. Betting the question
18. Expert opinion
4. Belief bias
19. Indoctrination
5. Binary thinking
20. Information
6. Circular reasoning
21. Justified true belief
7. Confirmation bias
22. Knowledge by authority
8. Contradiction
23. News media
9. Deduction
24. Primary knowledge
10. Double standards
25. Second-hand knowledge
11. Enthymeme
26. Sufficient condition
12. Equivocation
27. Thick concept
13. Fallacy
28. Urban legend
14. False analogy
15. False dilemma
 16. Hasty generalizations 6. Deduction
17. Induction/inductive inference 7. Empiricism
18. Infinite regress 8. Euclidean geometry
19. Lateral thinking 9. Formal system
20. Laws of thought 10. Formalism
21. Loaded questions 11. Godel’s incompleteness theorem
22. Post hoc ergo propter hoc 12. Goldbach’s conjecture
23. Premise 13. Idealization
24. Prison of consistency quantifier 14. Platonism
25. Rationalization 15. Synthetic
26. Rhetoric 16. Theorem
27. Special pleading
28. Syllogism Areas of Knowledge: Natural Sciences
29. Validity 1. Anomaly
30. Venn diagram 2. Conjectures and refutations
31. Vested interest 3. Controlled experiment
32. Vicious circle 4. Empirical
5. Empiricist
Ways of Knowing: Emotion
6. Falsification
1. Apathy 7. Hypothesis
2. Debutting intuition 8. Law
3. Emotional coloring 9. Logical positivism
4. Emotive language 10. Paradigm
5. Empathy intuitions 11. Physics envy
6. James-Lange theory 12. Principle of simplicity
7. Primary emotions 13. Pseudo-science
8. Rational fool 14. Rationalist
9. Romanticism 15. Relativism
10. Social emotion 16. Science worship
11. Stoicism 17. Scientism

Also know: Areas of Knowledge: Human Sciences

1. Four kinds of proposition 1. Bear market

a. Analytic statements 2. Behaviorism
b. Empirical statements 3. Bias
c. Value-judgments 4. Bull market
d. Metaphysical statements 5. Free-will/determinism
2. Paradigms as knowledge filters 6. Going native
7. Holism
Areas of Knowledge: Mathematics 8. Human free-will
1. Analytic 9. Law of large numbers
2. A posteriori 10. Loaded questions
3. A priori 11. Mirror test
4. Axioms 12. Nature-nurture debate
5. Conjecture 13. Observer effect
14. Phillips curve
 15. Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy 13. Self-interest theory
16. Reactance 14. Self-regarding desires
17. Reductionism 15. Special pleading
18. Reductive fallacy 16. Utilitarianism
19. Stream of consciousness 17. Value-judgment
20. Trends and laws 18. Veil of ignorance
21. Verstehen position
Concluding Chapter: Truth and Wisdom
Areas of Knowledge: History
1. Correspondence theory
1. Bias 2. Coherence theory
2. Cubist history 3. Pragmatic theory
3. Economic determinism 4. Dangers of Relativism
4. Empathy 5. Dangers of Dogmatism
5. Great person theory of history 6. Wisdom
6. Hindsight bias 7. Good judgment
7. Primary source 8. Breadth of vision
8. Secondary source 9. Self-knowledge
9. Self-realizing expectations 10. Responsibility
11. Intellectual humility
Areas of Knowledge: The Arts 12. Circular reasoning
1. Aesthetics 13. Communal reinforcement
2. Avant-garde 14. Cubist theory of truth
3. Beauty 15. Defense mechanisms
4. Canon 16. Intellectuals virtues
5. Catharsis 17. Learned ignorance
6. Disinterested 18. Rationalization
7. Expert opinion 19. Selective attention
8. Forgeries
9. Form versus content
10. Kitsch
11. Mimesis

Areas of Knowledge: Ethics

1. Altruism
2. Cultural imperialism
3. Duty ethics
4. Egoism
5. Golden rule
6. Moral absolutism
7. Moral principle
8. Moral relativism
9. Other-regarding desires
10. Relativism
11. Rights
12. Rule worship