JoschkaWoesteTokEssay

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 * ===Student Name=== || ===20 September===

Chosen TOK essay and why
|| ===8th October===

Ideas so far
|| ===29th Oct===

Outline/Plan
|| ===7st January===

1st Draft
|| ===1st February===

2nd Draft
|| ===25th Feb===

Final
|| || ||  ||  ||  || Final draft goes here || evidence can be dissmissed without evidence." (Christopher Hitchens). Do you agree?
 * || HOMEWORK: 01.10.2012
 * || "That which can be asserted without

Are claims only truthful if they are backed up by evidence? ||  || Stuff to further consider: Reason: Ten deadly fallacies: Ad ignorantiam : saying something is true just cause it can't be proven wrong (Religion), however do consider that it is morally accepted in the case of religion (e.g.Senator Joe McCarthy: There is nothign to say he is not a communist) ||  ||   ||   || (These are the relevant ones i want to focus on.) ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || AOK: Religion, Human Sciences, Mathematics
 * || WOK: Reason, Emotion(in terms with religion) ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || Why: Because i agree with the statement, Without evidence things can be dismissed, atleast as far as saying they aren't 100% correct, nonetheless this doesn't make certain knowledge false. e.g. Proof of god(religion), there is no evidence and so it can be dismissed, nonetheless the existence of god is not false either, it's just not proven or has no evidence backing it up. Economic theories(Human Sciences) are not all backed up by evidence and are not 100% correct, nonetheless we still use them because they're as close to the truth as we can get. Cosine rule(Mathematics) has evidence backing it up and so it is an example where a claim can't be dismissed.

Without evidence people are entitled to dismiss claims and make their own judgement as to whether or not the claim is true or false. With evidence this is not the case, if a claim is backed up by evidence then it can't be dismissed.

Reason: Through reason we can determine which claims can be dismissed and which can't. http://www.toktalk.net/about/ http://www.toktalk.net/2009/10/31/what-are-knowledge-issues-or-problems-of-knowledge/ ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||


 * **Ad** **Ignorantiam** || **Claiming something is true**  **because it cannot be proved to be false** ||