Truth in TOK by MsCarr https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth Group Task en-us 2017-09-24 07:01:13 UTC 2025-11-07 20:00:10 UTC hello@padlet.com Your Task carrs5 https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/190510498 1. Get yourselves in 4 groups- each group will be assigned a different type of truth test
2. Visit the following website
http://www.theoryofknowledge.net/knowledge-and-knowers/what-is-truth/
3. Each group needs to post on the wall a synopsis of their truth test
4. Once completed each group will present their learning and show the class what their truth test is all about]]> 2017-09-24 07:03:47 UTC https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/190510498 Pragmatic Truth (Abdul Karim, Amir Ali, Hassan) https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191089816
  • Pragmatic Truth Test is more complicated; requires to understand a little bit of the background of the philosophical schools of 'pragmatism' 
  • Most famous member - William James; believes often takes long time to figure or whether something is true or not. 
  • William James believes if something that you believe gives you some sort of purpose or helps your life, making your existence 'more fulfilling' - then so be it. 
  • Pragmatism holds that  truth is whatever is useful and profitable to us, and whatever brings us benefit.
  • An example could be that there is no proof of existence of god and there is very little philosophical justification for believing in him. However, if believing in God makes your life better in some sort of way and allows you to be more content with yourself, then for you, the truth is that there is a God.
    • ]]>     2017-09-26 04:05:43 UTC https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191089816     Grace, Jhanvi, Alisha https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191089860 Coherence truth test:
    This truth test demands that we use information that is not acquired through personal experience, and instead rely on reason and logic, to reach an answer. This could depend on scenarios which have occurred in the past or your personal bias to mold your expectations of an event.
    Examples:
    For instance, if a teacher claims that an intelligent student wrote an excellent essay then we would not need proof to believe this because it is logical and quite evidently coherent. ]]>     2017-09-26 04:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191089860     Correspondence Truth Test (Umerah, Anannya and Aneeha) https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191089891 Correspondence truth test accepts only personal experience in the form of sensual perception to be evidence of true knowledge. This is also known as empiricism which is the ideology that all of our knowledge is derived from experients and experimental proof. An example would be when a friend claims to have 'spoiled' a show or revealed elements of its plot; you'll never know if it was true or not until you watch the show yourself.]]> 2017-09-26 04:06:12 UTC https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191089891 Sai, Gabor, Marc, Krish & Adil https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191089893 The Consensus Truth Test:
    • The word consensus means the agreement of a group of people.
    • A consensus truth is what the majority of the people believe is true.
    • This idea can be linked to the ideology that people tend to follow the crowd or what others think.
    • The consensus truth relies on logical fallacy.
    • Justifying someones presence.
    • Revolutionary changes happen due to different thoughts made as one.
    • Everybody who buys a product due to somebody else's thought 
    • It is basically making choices due to the thoughts or beliefs of a herd of mindful people.


    ]]>     2017-09-26 04:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191089893     Glenn, Eman, Seema, Miray - The Pragmatic Truth Test https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191089915  - Based on the theory that truth comes from what we can see int he form of acton in real life.
    - Much more complex than the other tests.
    - Assess whether a theory is true or not on whether it has a practical application in real life.
    - Can only be learnt through physical interactions with the world.
    - One must also understand how, if a statement is true, it applies in real life.
    -  Pragmatism strength: This is an evidentiary documentation of proof and it presents applied working truths.
    -  Pragmatism weakness: Self serving - just because it works in a lab doesn't mean it will work outside a lab. The statement can be useful and not true or true but not useful.

    Examples:
    - When there is a statement that water is wet, you will never know how water feels until you ouch something that is wet.
    - If you claim to trust someone, without doing the trust fall for evidence, then the trust is not true.]]>     2017-09-26 04:06:26 UTC https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191089915     Asli, Deniz, Lara & Matilda: The Consensus Truth Test https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191090021 This test is the agreement of people around the idea that truth is what the majority of people believe. Similar to the herd mentality in psychology saying we follow the crowd, make decisions and adopt behaviours the majority believes to be true.]]> 2017-09-26 04:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191090021 The Coherence Truth test: (Saif, Sher, Ricky) https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191090073 The coherence theory of truth states that any knowledge claimed could only be obtained if you experience the knowledge yourself, however you would just be making claims based on other information that make the situation look more realistic.
    Example: People were not at the time or place when TuPac was 'shot and killed' but people that weren't there at the time assumed that this was true based on information they were getting from the media and reports.]]>     2017-09-26 04:08:01 UTC https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191090073     Hamza, Moody, and Karim https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191090956 The correspondence truth, is the ability to find out the truth using senses( eg: Sight, Touch, and Feel). For example when you are in a classroom you identify the teacher by seeing him. As sight will give us a version of truth. Another example would be that if you feel a ball, it would seem that the truth is a ball.


    ]]>     2017-09-26 04:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191090956     The Consensus Truth Test // Nada, Shakthi, Divya & Sarah // https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191091007 It is a philosophical viewpoint based on the assumption that truth is a matter of social agreements, including the agreements reached by the scientific community, which has been agreed upon to be one of the most reliable by the majority of society. 

    Most of the truth we know today is based off of this viewpoint. Majority of the knowledge we'd acquired in school is essentially a grouping of theories agreed upon by the human population to be 'valid'. It is a theory of truth mainly based on perspective. The main characteristic this theory possesses is the element of bias.

    * A product of propaganda.

    Examples:
    - Following the flock.
    - Marketing Technique.
    - Using Quotes to 'Prove' a point.
    - Beauty Standards

    ]]>     2017-09-26 04:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191091007     Laith, Solila, Meigol, dia https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191091194 The “truth” has been consistently used without effort given towards its final connotation in everyday life, where the definition of true knowledge hasn’t been entirely convinced. There are clear variants towards the term, and that there must be a clear guideline of presenting the entire truth. The entirety of the truth, from beginning to end, must be told as to truly reveal factual knowledge. And that by not filling out the entire guideline, we may only be telling part of the truth. Therefore, this is not necessarily true knowledge. 
     
    The correspondent’s truth test: 
     
    This test is meant match up proposition to what we can detect through our senses. What we hear, see, touch, taste, and smell help us match up knowledge in environments where necessary. Where seeing is knowing, rather than believing. An example would be touching ice. Our senses help us understand that the object is well and truly cold, therefore we have gained true knowledge that the object is cold
    ]]>     2017-09-26 04:18:10 UTC https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191091194     Argy, Retha, Natheem, Salig, Abolali https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191091213 Truth is used, everyday in everyone lives, however do we really know the true meaning of truth. Truth is something to be believed in accordance to reality, fact or science. 
     Consensus means the agreement of a group of people, so our third truth test is based around the idea that truth is what the majority of people believe. In our example, the fact of the goalkeeper playing in the match would be confirmed as true if the majority of people watching the game confirmed that he was present.
     
    This truth test is not one favored by any philosopher of note, although it is worth mentioning as it is often drawn on by many people to confirm what they are saying is true, and is used extensively by marketing companies to prove the quality of products they are trying to sell. Relying on the consensus truth test is a logically fallacy, which we will look at later on. Having said that, it is instinctively drawn on by all of us at times, as we ‘follow the crowd’ in making decisions and deciding on a particular course of action. How many times a day do you do something just because everyone else seems to be doing so? And have any of your teachers ever said to you, ‘What would happen if everyone behaved like that?’ ]]>     2017-09-26 04:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191091213     Ragheed, Ana, Aline, Dalya ragheedakeel7 https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191092037 The pragmatic truth test is altogether more complicated, and requires us to understand a little bit about the background of the philosophical school of ‘pragmatism’, and its most famous member, William James. Pragmatism holds that truth is whatever is useful and profitable to us, and whatever brings us benefit.]]> 2017-09-26 04:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191092037 Ms Carr, some good ideas for, your group.... Ours look better 😃 ckeogh1 https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191092253 2017-09-26 04:29:11 UTC https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191092253 https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191092303 2017-09-26 04:29:38 UTC https://padlet.com/carrs5/truth/wish/191092303