TOK Terms and Key Concepts:

These terms and concepts are commonly used in the creation of knowledge questions:

1. Expert
2. Belief
3. Evidence
4. Truth
5. Reliability
6. Certainty
7. Proof - Verification
8. Justification
9. Test
10. Validity
11. Concept
12. Culture
13. Faith
14. Generalization
15. Authority
16. Bias
17. Theory
18. Experience
19. Explanation
20. Interpretation
21. Intuition
22. Values
23. Subjectivity
24. Objectivity
25. Experimentation
26. Method
27. Causation
28. Correlation

Flow Diagram of Scientific Method:

Areas of Knowing: (AOK)

1. Natural Sciences
2. Human Sciences
3. Arts
4. History
5. Mathematics
6. Ethics
7. Indigenous Knowledge Systems
8. Religious Knowledge Systems

Theories to test truth:

1. Pragmatic theory - e.g. "It is true because it works for me."
2. Correspondent theory - e.g. I say there is a yellow bird on the roof and you can check if what I say matches what you see.
3. Coherent theory: - e.g. "It is true if it fits in with what I already know."

Criteria for Truth:

1. Independent - exists on its own
2. Public - everyone knows it
3. Eternal - truth will never change

8 ways of knowing:

1. Reason + Logic
2. Sense perception
3. Language
4. Faith
5. Memory
6. Emotion
7. Intuition
8. Imagination