Theory of Knowledge
TOK ESSAY EXAMPLES 7
“Labels are a necessity to the organisation of knowledge, but they also constrain our understanding.” Discuss this statement with reference to 2 AOKs.
As a society, we have become entrenched in labels and we have associated our entire world with descriptive or identifying words or phrases. Labels provide order to a chaotic world by arranging all the knowledge we have using certain schemas and categories. We live in a knowledge society, and play our part to work out the best modalities, to facilitate sound organisation of knowledge using patterns. Constraints refer to limitations to a knower which prevents acceptance of a rationally justifiable claim which may be conflicting with the existing perspectives. These restrictions affect the ability of knowers to fully grasp any knowledge because before even understanding a concept they become prisoners of self definition of the label.
In The Arts, labels help in identifying the class of an art piece which depends on its quality measured in terms of genres, intent of the artist, difficulty in creating an art work or acceptance by audiences. Similarity in Human Sciences labels are associated with the quality of data used to produce new knowledge collected by questionnaire, surveys, anecdotal records. The qualitative and quantitative data is used statistically to make the knowledge more objective so that it has ready acceptance by the community of knowers. Labels depict the associated ideas and emotional connections which further adds to the existing perception.
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