TOK Review

Which word means experiencing for yourself?

• Empiricism

• Essentialism

• Evangelism

• Existentialism

Which type of logic is taking specific observations and using them to make generalised theories?

• Inductive

• Deductive

• Abductive

Which of these best defines an Area of Knowledge?

• The ways in which we categorize ideas and concepts in order to understand them.

• Subjects we study in the IB Diploma Programme

• The personal and societal affiliations which shape the way we make sense of knowledge.

• The groups into which we place knowledge.

A good Second Order Knowledge questions is: (Select all that apply)

• based on subject knowledge

• Open ended

• About knowledge

• General

A text or artwork that can be interpreted to

reveal a hidden meaning, usually moral or political in

nature

A starting assumption, often regarded as a self-evident

truth or, more loosely, something we assume to

be true or accept as true within a particular system

What is prejudice, unfairness, favouritism, one-sided

preference called?

What is the attribute of having no doubt called?

Faith without evidence, understanding or

discrimination; faith that is not open to evaluation or

critical thought

• No Faith

• Blind faith

• Effective faith

the theory that a proposition is true if it fits in with our overall set of beliefs

• Coherence

• Corespondence

• Pragmatic

• Cubist