Language And Thought

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?

They are imposing Newspeak in order to eliminate words that are looked at as unnecessary or useless. They believe that there are extra words in Oldspeak that could be replaced by simply changing one word so that with these changes, could have the different meanings of words. For example, instead of “good” and “bad” it will just be “ungood.” By removing Oldspeak, many words will be removed as well, in order to establish a simpler and more direct use of language.

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Real Life Situation on Dispute between China, Japan and Korea

Real Life Situation:The controversial dispute of the islands between China, Japan and Korea

Knowledge claim :Which country should be in control of the disputed islands

Concept: Truth, reason, history , geography

Poor knowledge question:why do this three countries have disputes?

Intermediate knowledge question:how do we use history to judge which country will have what island?

Good knowledge question: to What extent do we use history to reason the truth in the geography of the map?

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Application of the ladder of abstraction in TOK

My grand father claims that the fruits on his trees are ripening earlier and earlier he thinks it is due to global warming.

Knowledge claim : that fruits are ripening faster due to global warming.

Concept: Experience , sense perception , history, memory,science, truth.

Poor knowledge question:Do we need experience to prove that fruits are growing faster ?

Intermediate knowledge question: Can science justify why fruits are growing faster?

Good knowledge question: to what extent can we use memory to achieve the hi storical truth?

 

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