Real Life moral situation:
Question: 
Slightly based on the trolley dilemma; there is a train that, much to your horror, is about to run over your own son, who has been tied to its track. It just so happens that you have only enough time to pull a lever which will send the train down an alternate track saving your son. However, you see that, tied to the other track, is your best friend, who recently saved your life and you have yet to repay him for doing so. What would you do?

• To be honest, what i would do is to jump off the train myself so that i don't get to see my son or my best friend dead and blame myself for the rest of my life for the cause to their death. So that even if the train runs over my son, i wouldn't get to see him dead and mourn over him and feel bad that i didn't pull the lever. 

In Great Carven's video of global warming, he was looking at if we should take action against or not global warming and who the cause of global warming is? he argues that we should  take action because later in the years, we would suffer alot. what i  learnt is that we need to learn to decide fast and be appropriate in decision making.

Is seeing believing?

To a larger extent, i do agree that seeing is believing because we as humans, its in our natures to not really believe someone without them showing a proof. We believe in what our eyes see and that's what we say its the truth-what our eyes see. In court cases, lawyers have to present evidence in favour of his client. 

Why does he have to present evidence? 

Because he knows that the judge can not believe anything he sees without giving justifications and evidence to his statements. It the same thing in real life situations.

However, nobody has seen God but still people believe in Him. So its not necessary for one to see something in order to believe in it. People believe in reincarnation. We don't know even know if it exists or not.

 Hence, it is not necessary to see something in order to believe in it.

Language

 Reflection on it: 
Language is what everyone uses to communicate, inform something, interact with others, use it to provide knowledge or information and to do so many other things. Language can not only be expressed verbally but also, via texts/messaging, through pictures/symbols and through videos. The type of language that one uses to express/give out a point may not be in the same way the other person would take/understand it. For example, if i say "I don't like school." I am meaning that i don't like the amount of work being given to me from school but the other person would think that i am meaning that i generally don't like the school am in. Therefore, the type of language and words used vary and is not necessary to be taken/understood in the same way by each and every person.  Symbols and pictures also have a hand in the way language is used and understood by people. For example; in shopping malls, there are trolleys that people can use with babies less than 1 year to shop with. The people don't have to carry their babies while shopping, The can keep the babies on the bed that is attached to the trolley and can move around the mall. But how do we know that tis is for people with babies only? This is where symbols or pictures play a role. With the baby bed attached to the trolley, it signifies that this types of trolleys are to be used with people with babies. Therefore, language plays different kind of roles in different situations. We use and see language everywhere.
Hence, language is a method for communicating and does not necessarily need to be verbally. And it also plays major roles in our lives.

Why is the ruthless totalitarian regime, described in Orwell’s novel purging Oldspeak and imposing Newspeak? What assumptions are being made about the relationship between language and thought?

• The target of Newspeak was to reduce on the words and language being used. They wanted to control people's thoughts and mind so that it is easier for them to be more clear and straight forward.  

• The assumption made about the relationship between thought and language is that the lesser the language used, the smaller the thoughts of the people will be.

Real Life Situation

* Identify a real life situation and choose a good knowledge question on it.

Situation: The 2004 Indian ocean and tsunami and the location of its epicenter.
Knowledge Question: To what extent does prediction test the validity of a science theory? 

Do Fruits Ripen Faster Because Of Global Warming?

The ladder of abstraction includes: 

1. Knowledge claim
2. Topic
3. Poor question
4. Intermediate question
5. Good question 

Knowledge claim: Does global warming affect fruits? 

Topic: Fruits and global warming

Poor question: How does global warming in any way affect the fruits?

Intermediate question: How can we come to a conclusion that global warming affects fruits? If it actually                                           does.

Good question: Does natural science or any other source of knowledge prove that fruits are                                                     affected by global warming?

TOK-IBD

I take the following subjects in IB:
Mathematics
ITGS
Physics
Chemistry
Spanish
English

And according to me, i think ITGS should be on the first rank because the world is moving with the technology. Everyone needs to have basic computer skills as in the next generation, most of the work will be done using technology.English should also be the on the first rank because it is an internationally used language. On the second place should be mathematics as it helps with transactions and trading in real life. On the third rank should be Physics and Chemistry. Since they are sciences, it is necessary to have at least basic ideas/knowledge about them. And at the last rank, Spanish because it is a language that is used in only some of the countries.

Hi.

I will be doing my Theory Of Knowledge (TOK) essay here. I will start as soon as i get my topic. :)