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Do you think you will inevitably arrive at legitimate knowledge purely
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01 through checking the reliability of your source?
86% 14%

0% 43% 86% COUNT PERCENT

No 6 86%

Yes 0 0%

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Do you think that legitimate knowledge is the inevitable outcome if you
6 1
02 arrive at it through checking for factual, empirical evidence?
86% 14%

0% 29% 58% COUNT PERCENT

No 4 57%

Yes 2 29%

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Do you think you can only be sure that you've arrived at legitimate
6 1
03 knowledge if you've done so through the exercise of rational thought?
86% 14%

0% 21.5% 43% COUNT PERCENT

No 3 43%

Yes 3 43%

Question Do you think you can be sure of the legitimacy of your conclusions if they've Answers Skips

been arrived at through the exercise of intellectual virtues such as wisdom, 5 2

04 objectivity and creativity? 71% 29%

0% 21.5% 43% COUNT PERCENT

Yes 3 43%

No 2 29%

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Do you think the approach you choose should depend on the kind of
6 1
05 knowledge in question?
86% 14%

0% 29% 58% COUNT PERCENT

Yes 4 57%

No 2 29%

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Please give a brief example or examples to illustrate your answer to question
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06 5.
86% 14%

Some things are 'hard' facts such as how concrete behaves. Some things are more subjective eg how to approach design of a
teaching and learning activity. So one requires understanding of science and needs to know more basic information such as Today, 5:00AM
5,139,462 temperature, composition, the other is an art which needs be more fully contextualised.

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For a 3 month period I took a class of autistic spectrum students who, although largely lacking in social skills, were incredibly
knowledgeable about certain specific topics. My IT work with them became the chance to create, manage and maintain Yesterday, 2:10PM
5,135,187 wikipedia entries based on their specialist knowledge (e.g. the guitar strings used by heavy rock axe-man of the 1980s).

If I create then I have experienced. Experience is reason. Yesterday, 11:12AM

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There are certain examples where knowledge is learned behaviour, maybe even natural inherent behaviour, instinct for Saturday, Mar 13th
example knowledge of right and wrongs, morales, danger, pain 10:03AM
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Scientific 'facts' can be proved by small scale experiments (and what has been reported on in the past) e.g. the effect of one
chemical on another. More complex 'knowledge' requires a lot of reading and discussion/engagement to understand - and you Saturday, Mar 13th
may never fully undertand it e.g. what is epistemology? Other knowledge is very personal and can be debated like "what is 10:00AM
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race?".

Knowledge about the physical nature of the universe can be arrived at through experimentation and the collection of empirical
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evidence, but if I'm looking for knowledge about the definition of terms with contested meanings, such as 'working class' or
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5,128,673 'gender', then I think I'd be safer in my conclusions if I looked for consensus and reliability of source.

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