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Tok Essay Ways Of Knowing


Using one way of knowing is not enough if you want to determine if something is true or if something is believed to be true. The different ways of knowing are sense perception, reasoning, emotion and memory.
Plato once stated that knowledge is “Justified true belief” which just goes to show that in order to obtain knowledge, we need to know certain thing as a fact, not belief. When we believe something is true, we do not know it for certain. We just have faith in the fact that it is true. To test if our beliefs are real and true, we can use the different ways of knowing to confirm or abolish our beliefs. However these ways of knowing each have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Sense perception is usually the most accurate way of getting behind the truth because you have five senses that each tell you part of the truth. For instance if you see something, you feel something and the two senses confirm each other than that gives you an......

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