My Theory Of Knowledge Essay

During my Theory of Knowledge (TOK) course I realized that everything in the world is linked to each other, there is nothing separate in the world. I also learned that the base of every subject, Science and project is “knowledge”. The basic definition of knowledge is “the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association”. The whole life of a person is based on the idea of learning and knowing everything which is around us. Nowadays people use different ways of knowing (WOK) in order to get a fully reliable information. ‘There are eight different ways of knowing. They are emotion, faith, imagination, intuition, language, memory, reason and sense perception.’ Each of them has its own purpose, value

The first attempt we might make to prove that Mathematics is true is to consider real life situation where mathematical equations seem to appear. One example is; if I have three red apples in my bag and add two more green apples, the bag will then contain three red apples and two green apples, so in the bag there will be five apples. This situation seems to apply the expression 3+2=5. So, this situation proves that Mathematics as the area of knowledge uses sense perception as one way of knowing. After we got the naturally proven information (basics), we can use intuition as a way of knowing to assume that the same expression is true for other numbers. The next stage is that we can work with this information to get a real lemma or a theorem. In order to work with this information, we use language, memory and reason as ways of knowing. We use language and memory in order to get information from other sources such as books, Internet, people and others. After we got all the necessary information using sense perception, language, memory and intuition as ways of knowing, we can start analyzing this huge amount of information using reason as a way of knowing. Finally, when all of these information was analyzed, we get a fully justified theorem or