Friday, October 10, 2014
Subatomic Knowledge
To force Rose to answer her own question, I'd like you to spend some time this weekend at 3 Quarks Daily. Please browse the site and select an article. Read it. In your post, share a link to the specific piece you choose. Then extract a knowledge question that includes explicit reference to at least one way of knowing. Finally, connect that KQ to a moment of knowledge from one of your courses. To be clear: the connection should be based on the applicability of the knowledge question, not on similarity of subject matter. This is due by 9:30 Sunday evening.
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Article: http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/10/magic-kingdoms.html
ReplyDeleteKnowledge Question: How far can a person's interpretation of an author's language deviate from the original meaning before it is considered wrong?
This knowledge question can connect to a moment of knowledge in English class where two students took the same passage in the Kite Runner and interpreted it completely oppositely, but only one was considered "right" because the other deviated too far from the author's intentions.
Here is the article I read:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/10/yeah-baby-malala-yousafzai-and-kailash-satyarthi-are-awarded-nobel-peace-prize.html
From this, the knowledge question I created is: How does Faith influence our knowledge of a universally accepted concept?
An applicable area of knowledge is in Chemistry, where it is a universally accepted concept that electrons of atoms exist within a "probability cloud." Yet to classify electron arrangement, we still use the Bohr's model, which arranges electrons within energy levels or "shells". Thus, we need to have faith that the probability of finding an electron within a certain energy harmonic is strong, or else everything we know about electrons and the physical properties of atoms would shift.
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/07/the-dignity-of-skepticism.html
ReplyDeleteKQ: To what extent must reason be present to consider a piece of knowledge valid?
This knowledge can apply to my Biology class. During the past week in Biolgoy, we were investigating cell division. We compared binary fission to mitosis and explained why there were two different types of cell division for Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic cells. This piece of knowledge is only valid because there are reasons to back it up. In science, almost every piece of information that is considered to be "knowledge" and "true" has a long chain of reasons to back up the validity of the information
Article: http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/10/a-little-knowledge-the-significance-of-expertise-passed-on-by-direct-contact.html
ReplyDeleteKnowledge Question: To what extent can different sense of perception vary one moment of knowledge?
This knowledge is related to the sense of perception. In my English class, we have talked about different learning styles. For example, some people prefer to gain knowledge by vision, while other people like to learn things by sound. While reviewing the plot of the Kite Runner, some people like to review it by reading it by themselves while others prefer to read it out loud and listen to other people's reading. Thus, I was thinking that the same knowledge we gained, which is the plot of the Kite Runner, may possibly vary since different people reviewed it through different sense of perception.
Article: Does evolutionary theory need a rethink?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/10/does-evolutionary-theory-need-a-rethink.html
Extracted Knowledge Question: To what extent do our observations inflict on our knowledge that an idea or theory must be correct.
This knowledge question can be linked back to Biology class. In class, we learned about atoms and atomic structure. As a result of common, accepted and proven knowledge I know that atoms exist and make up all living things. However,I cannot see, hear, smell, feel or taste them I cannot be completely sure of their existence.
Article Link: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ignorance-of-philosophy-identity-politics-and-the-cosmopolitan-ideal/
ReplyDeleteKQ: To what extent can emotion negatively effect our knowledge of general truths?
AOK Moment: One day in History class, we were talking about the death tolls of WWI and specifically the battles of Verdun and Somme. It was extremely devastating to hear the amount of people that had lost their lives during that time, and there was such a high death toll that I did not want to believe that it was true at first. Unfortunately, that number of dead WWI soldiers and citizens is a fact though, and has to be accepted by all even though we may wish to forget it. Eventually I (unwillingly) accepted that fact, although my emotions wanted me to deny the validity of that truth originally.
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/10/fallibilism-and-its-discontents.html#more
ReplyDeleteKQ: Is it possible for us to ever be indisputably right about a stance on an ethical issue?
AOK: In class, I remember several instances where students got into arguments with one another about the moral nuances of the subject matter in History and English. It brought the question to my mind of whether or not either of them would ever be absolutely right.