tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post1230131459113745629..comments2023-10-17T02:52:20.176-06:00Comments on PHS Theory of Knowledge: "Allegory of the Cave" Question #3J.Malonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18172827782199289643noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-60777724196199467252008-09-11T21:20:00.000-06:002008-09-11T21:20:00.000-06:00I had a hard time accepting the idea of an atom an...I had a hard time accepting the idea of an atom and the elememts in chemistry. I'm mostly a visual and "hands-on" learner and the notion of the whole world being made up of something that we haven't ever seen wasn't working for me. I couldn't grasp the idea that everything was made of matter that we haven't really seen. I don't think I could grasp it because I've always been such a visual learner and accepted most things that I see. After hearing so many times I guess I just accepted it cause it was the easiest way instead of fighting it. I did trust the educational system then so I just accepted the "knowledge" of atoms and elements were true.JWolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10665418291985445249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-81504161782724492822008-09-08T18:32:00.001-06:002008-09-08T18:32:00.001-06:00I guess a "knowledge" that I have had trouble acce...I guess a "knowledge" that I have had trouble accepting or learning would be different aspects in chemistry. I guess some of it makes sence but when it gets down to the electron configuration and wirting configurations I struggle to understand it. I think it is hard for me because I can't picture the electrons or elements and how or why they configure. I have to accept the teachers word for it that its true so that other things will make sence later. I think I wanted more proof. I think it was hard for me personally because I like justification and not just because I said so. Even if the teacher had specific proof I would still have trouble wrapping my mind around it.tpauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01607226056760061840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-75565864467795264092008-09-08T18:32:00.000-06:002008-09-08T18:32:00.000-06:00I guess a "knowledge" that I have had trouble acce...I guess a "knowledge" that I have had trouble accepting or learning would be different aspects in chemistry. I guess some of it makes sence but when it gets down to the electron configuration and wirting configurations I struggle to understand it. I think it is hard for me because I can't picture the electrons or elements and how or why they configure. I have to accept the teachers word for it that its true so that other things will make sence later. I think I wanted more proof. I think it was hard for me personally because I like justification and not just because I said so. Even if the teacher had specific proof I would still have trouble wrapping my mind around it.tpauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01607226056760061840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-16136682500083766002008-09-08T00:16:00.000-06:002008-09-08T00:16:00.000-06:00As stated in some comments above I too have had pr...As stated in some comments above I too have had problems in believing the knowledge of the theory of evelution. There is some evidence to support these theories but there is just so many gaps and spaces needed to be filled, and it is still not certain in the scientific world that evolution has occurred the way it has. I just don't understand how someone can grasp the concept of evolution.Paigeypoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02102920637383923311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-88837076852810246792008-09-07T22:30:00.000-06:002008-09-07T22:30:00.000-06:00to add on again in school you have to put you ful...to add on again in school you have to put you full trust in you teachers because everything they are teaching could be totaly bias and incorrect. for example in history you cannot go back in time and check the facts yourself to see what is really true or in chemistry how do you know if all of these crazy things really exist? thats why i think its sometimes hard for peopleTess Santangelohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03018814098248043025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-5158045517591562382008-09-07T14:17:00.000-06:002008-09-07T14:17:00.000-06:00The one thing i still can't seem to grasp in schoo...The one thing i still can't seem to grasp in school is chemsitry. i understand how it works, i know why it works, and i've seen it work, so i don't know why i have trouble believing it. it's mostly the electrons nd atoms and 14 tiny things of this equalizes 15 slightly smaller things of that and it's all taking place in an infatessimle space that no one has ever seen. <BR/>i think i'm like this because i can't see it or feel it happening. informatin i get from a whiteboard, a textbook or a teacher just isn't enough to make me believe it. <BR/>wait, doesn't that mean that it's not justified for me and therefore i can't really know it?? maybe chemistry is just worthless in that sense. :)Alihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02136727290152732502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-38350992965440115692008-09-07T12:26:00.000-06:002008-09-07T12:26:00.000-06:00Acamdemic knowledge that I have struggled with is ...Acamdemic knowledge that I have struggled with is accepting the interpretation of literature, and that the tiniest details can somehow contribute to the overall message. I understand how to do it, and I have always done well on english essays, etc. but I have a hard time believing that Shakespeare used iambic pentameter and juxtaposition to highlight the conflict between the Capulets and Montagues.Bismah A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06358655972921796652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-24053264450410293212008-09-06T13:35:00.000-06:002008-09-06T13:35:00.000-06:00One thing I have had a hard time understanding is ...One thing I have had a hard time understanding is why the heck to we need to learn a foreign language? I mean, isn't the time better spent becoming more thouroughly versed in our other subjects? Or even taking a different subject? I know I would in the long run make more money if I was taking a biology class instead of spanish. It would also further my education, making me a more knowledgeable person. With that extra money I would be able to pay a person to translate for me. To me, a foreign language is a waste of time unless you want the awful job as a translator, or your field for some reason requires it.<BR/><BR/>I have a hard time getting my head around the idea that people do not believe evolution. I believe that there is no way that everything just plopped here they way it was a couple thousand years ago. I mean, God wouldn't have got it perfect down to the last star right off the bat and also, why he put trilobite fossils here? I mean, have you seen those things? You can't just think those things up, they have to just naturally happen. I do not disregard god, just rather that he put his finger down and created bacteria. Then he stood back to watch. The majority of my extended family will disagree with me (one section adamantly so) but that is what I believe.Nelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10817822820084475906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-90948780295655051552008-09-06T13:16:00.000-06:002008-09-06T13:16:00.000-06:00I had had a difficult time believing that literatu...I had had a difficult time believing that literature could be so universally interpretable. I had always believed, up until about last year, that authors wrote for the purpose of conveying a single message or one set of related philosophies. It seemed to me that why else would they put so much effort into elaborate descriptions of setting and intricate characterization if not to portray exactly the ideas which they had in mind while writing? I denied to myself that a novel or poem could be written simply for the reader to generate his or her own understanding, thinking that that only allowed for the ability to B***S***, which the I.B. English program has become so infamous for. This left my range of interpretation quite limited. Eventually I broke this barrier, and have found that the universality in literature is part of what makes it so unique from most other Areas of Knowledge, save Art.the bee geehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10661662764212493663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-14852729771607514202008-09-06T09:20:00.000-06:002008-09-06T09:20:00.000-06:00Okay, so the main thing that I have trouble accept...Okay, so the main thing that I have trouble accepting is astronomy. I do accept it, but it is really hard for me to get my head around just how small and insignificant we are compared to everything else that there is everywhere else. Also the theory that the universe is expanding. I have never been able to accept that one, becuase what is it expanding into? I see it as if the number infinity was getting bigger, but it can't right? <BR/>I also agree with Tess and Taylor about the subjunctive. It makes no sense to me, but that is more of an issue with comprehending as opposed to accepting for me. <BR/>Other than that, as far as school topics go that's about it. I don't question a lot of the things I am taught becuase they make sense to me, and if they make sense than I don't see why they wouldn't be right.Brittanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07611379037641636689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-22315812592114104592008-09-05T13:54:00.000-06:002008-09-05T13:54:00.000-06:00Ugh. Well quite a number of people have already st...Ugh. Well quite a number of people have already stated this, but I also have a hard time grasping the concept of evolution. The reason is that I was brought up in a christian home and I have believed God created man my entire life. I understand that if you look at bones you can see possible change, but I just see so many missing links that it is irrational to draw so many conclusions of life beginning from bones... and strictly science for that matter...hockeysuto22https://www.blogger.com/profile/06150277818283236034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-86699010916557001662008-09-04T23:00:00.000-06:002008-09-04T23:00:00.000-06:00I’ve always struggled with the idea that there may...I’ve always struggled with the idea that there may be many answers to each question. Like in the theory of evolution, which I’ve noticed that a lot of people are struggling to accept. Well… maybe your all right?<BR/>Still, it’s hard for me to know that you can’t always prove things. I went to a private school through jr. high and we were taught to question everything around us, so I understood the idea that it is good to think critically and not just except what you are told. But what I really struggled with was the idea that each of the questions we ask leads to more questions.<BR/>I am a somewhat concrete sequential person, so not having a definite answer is sometimes frustrating, and makes me feel like I don’t have any control over what I know and how I view the world.meredithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07141598776630965263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-29874455311768229892008-09-04T22:56:00.000-06:002008-09-04T22:56:00.000-06:00I agree with many of you who had a hard time accep...I agree with many of you who had a hard time accepting Chemistry. Once something I study gets bigger or smaller in scale than I can see or infer, then I have a hard time accepting it. I know that there is evidence for the structure of an atom and its bonding, but nobody has actually seen structural things like the Aufbau principle. And I know that I have studied patterns between chemicals that bond, but how do the little atoms "know" what to do? Another concept that I have struggled to accept is foreign language. Why do gato, cat and chat all mean a furry mammal that has a tail and says meow? Who came up with the verb conjugations and grammar rules to begin with? How do languages die off or evolve? I guess that language is a little too abstract for me because I tend to be more linear.Calliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17657292423323372851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-43092047704612689222008-09-04T22:33:00.000-06:002008-09-04T22:33:00.000-06:00honestly, TOK has probably been the hardest class ...honestly, TOK has probably been the hardest class of my entire school career. it is kind of depressing because through all the reflections and what not, i've kinda realized that i don't know what in the world i believe. i've always been that kid that believes what you tell them, and doesn't think too much about it, whose always so much into my own thing that i don't think about world issues really. this class has made me really rethink/ reevualate a lot of my beliefs.tuckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482025394277448735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-74667505725686827122008-09-04T22:00:00.000-06:002008-09-04T22:00:00.000-06:00I also do not understand why it is so hard to beli...I also do not understand why it is so hard to believe the theory of evolution. I mean, if the Bible is correct, then where do the dinosaurs com in? But just because I believe the theory of evolution doens't mean that I don't believe in God, or that He helped create the world. If there really was one point in time were there were two amino acids or wahtever (Sorry Ms. Witman) that came together and created something that started life on Earth, do you really think that it all happened by chance? I believe in the theory of evolution, but that doesn't mean I don't believe that God didn't help it along.Karahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11741020009756672413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-73875310349671463982008-09-04T21:34:00.000-06:002008-09-04T21:34:00.000-06:00Something that I have always had trouble grasping ...Something that I have always had trouble grasping as far as school knowledge is concerned is the idea of genocide. I know that that probably isn't something that most people think they really understand or agree with by any means but I have always had a really hard time wraping my head around the idea that there are people who genuinely believe that certain races are inferior to others enough to want to wipe out a certain race. I guess because I have been raised in a time and a family that is really accepting of everyone and believes that everyone is equal that I can't really grasp that concept. I also think that it is had to believe because I don't want to believe that there are people out there with that sort of thinking and that sort of hate in them, its kind of a scary thought. Also I am one of those people that tries to find and see the good in everyone, so I have a hard time believing that anyone would intentionally do something like that. Another thing I have trouble believeing is the idea that what is printed in history books in not always entirely accurate. It seems like it should be, but I have learned through IB that all sources are biased and it is important to evaluate your sources to see if they are trustworthy, even though I absolutly hate evaluating sources.Kelsey Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14972226180189132325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-58630623238171485352008-09-04T20:25:00.000-06:002008-09-04T20:25:00.000-06:00I'm totally with orange; I do NOT understand elect...I'm totally with orange; I do NOT understand electron clouds and how they are configured and why there's a different number in each level and all of that. And you can't see it, so why does it matter? Who cares? (sorry Mrs Suto) <BR/>Another thing I have difficulty accepting is how people can NOT accept the theory of evolution and believe in a Creator. Belief in something you cannot see, hear, touch, or taste but claims to be everywhere and everything seems like shadows on the wall to me; almost like a form of voluntary delusion. I blame the way I was brought up.Simonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15813383262261905365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-58927527250994111242008-09-03T21:28:00.000-06:002008-09-03T21:28:00.000-06:00Something that has always been hard for me to acce...Something that has always been hard for me to accept like many others who have posted is the theory of evolution. I grew up believing in God and the Creation theory therefore it is really really difficult for me to reject something that I have always been taught is the truth and believe this "new" idea. I also like what CJ said there are so many complex systems to the body that evolution does not make sense, this miracle of life seems to well set up and so complex that one cell evolving over amounts of time and withstanding odds of complete failure further my belief there is a higher power that wanted us here.Michelle Madsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04901168969052583586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-7355811342664779222008-09-02T22:15:00.000-06:002008-09-02T22:15:00.000-06:00One "knowledge" that I have struggled to believe i...One "knowledge" that I have struggled to believe is the idea that there isn't always a right of wrong. In some cases, its easy to distinguish; for example do you kill a man you hate, or let him live? Easy moral choice, Life. But say the man is a sociopath that killed your whole family and countless of others. If he was given the death penalty, and you were the only one who could save him, would you? Probably not, but is that right? Who knows? <BR/>Thats a tough subject, but how about McCain and Obama? Who is the right president for America?<BR/>Or how about a tricky one...<BR/>Is this next statement true of false (right or wrong).<BR/>"This statement is false."<BR/>If it tells the truth, then it is false, but then it couldn't be true. If it is lieing then it must be true which would then make it false. So is the sentence right or wrong? <BR/>I guess what gets me about being right or wrong is that Im kinda lazy, and it would be so much easier if the world was just plain right and wrong.Michael W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00849726204734858729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-33103142142497202972008-09-02T21:29:00.000-06:002008-09-02T21:29:00.000-06:00I have a hard time accepting math proofs. For some...I have a hard time accepting math proofs. For some reason, I just don't understand where all the numbers, variables, and thoughts from mathematicians come from. It's like they really just came up with random letters and numbers and decided to try something like the pythagoren theorem. That was just so crazy for me. I probably thought that about math proofs because I don't really like complicated math or math proofs. Algebra is about as high as I can go.christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08872831654367310216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-61480761094756881052008-09-02T19:40:00.000-06:002008-09-02T19:40:00.000-06:00Nothing really comes to mind with stuff that I've ...Nothing really comes to mind with stuff that I've had trouble accepting - I guess I'm too quick to accept new information or something. For instance, in Chemistry, I sort of just believe most of the stuff I get told without understanding it fully, assuming that I'll understand it later. I should probably be more skeptical.jeff_tweedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09347658324312899085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-60208058795727359652008-09-02T19:27:00.000-06:002008-09-02T19:27:00.000-06:00I have issues accepting art. I believe that it is...I have issues accepting art. I believe that it is a waste of time to learn how to paint or draw. In elementary school, art was just a time to put a bunch of hyperactive little kids in a room with coloring utensils and pray that they don't eat the crayons. This kind of art is not even a display of culture. All it really is is showing that little kids understand the fact that people have four limbs and can draw some lines in the basic sketch of a human.<BR/>It is true that everyone must start somewhere, but making art a mandatory class for those who are not very creative (like myself) is really just a waste of time and school funding. Also, i have issues with people drawing random shapes and figures on a piece of paper, adding vibrant colors, and calling it 'modern abstract' art. That is total baloney. By that definition, a doodle by a first grader could be considered 'high art', thus lowering the cultural value of art as a whole.<BR/>So, to rap up this little rant, I believe that making art a mandatory class in elementary school is ridiculous and an insult to the world of culture.Ben Barochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18432970221807531935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-69647354232647118712008-09-02T19:08:00.002-06:002008-09-02T19:08:00.002-06:00I agree with Annelise and Karam. The theory of evo...I agree with Annelise and Karam. The theory of evolution is just that, a theory, which means that it's not entirely true or false. I believe in evolution in terms animals and plants changing/mutating over a period of time (like flies and mosquitoes). I think it's good to consider both sides and decide for yourself whether evolution really did happen or if God created the earth. I have often heard that if a person goes into nature and sees all the trees, mountains, and animals, they feel that there must be some sort of designer or creator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-25716582787558446372008-09-02T19:08:00.001-06:002008-09-02T19:08:00.001-06:00I agree with Annelise and Karam. The theory of evo...I agree with Annelise and Karam. The theory of evolution is just that, a theory, which means that it's not entirely true or false. I believe in evolution in terms animals and plants changing/mutating over a period of time (like flies and mosquitoes). I think it's good to consider both sides and decide for yourself whether evolution really did happen or if God created the earth. I have often heard that if a person goes into nature and sees all the trees, mountains, and animals, they feel that there must be some sort of designer or creator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16838489.post-68213936673577059452008-09-02T19:08:00.000-06:002008-09-02T19:08:00.000-06:00I agree with Annelise and Karam. The theory of evo...I agree with Annelise and Karam. The theory of evolution is just that, a theory, which means that it's not entirely true or false. I believe in evolution in terms animals and plants changing/mutating over a period of time (like flies and mosquitoes). I think it's good to consider both sides and decide for yourself whether evolution really did happen or if God created the earth. I have often heard that if a person goes into nature and sees all the trees, mountains, and animals, they feel that there must be some sort of designer or creator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com