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Knowledge Issues = Issues about knowledge Identify 3 knowledge issues in your essay – to make it more specific include these terms wherever possible Aspects of Knowledge Acquisition (how I gain kn.) Production (creation) Shaping (influences) Classification (obj, subj) Status (important or not) Acceptance or rejection (why people choose to believe it or not) Ways of Knowing Logic / Reason Emotion / Intuition • Language • Perception Areas of Knowledge Natural Science Human Science - Politics • Maths • Arts Ethics - Religion • History Other Key terms • Belief • Truth • Justification • Certainty • Methods • Values • assumptions

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Knowledge Issues = Issues about knowledgeIdentify 3 knowledge issues in your essay – to make it more specific include these terms wherever possible

Aspects of Knowledge• Acquisition (how I gain kn.)• Production (creation)• Shaping (influences)• Classification (obj, subj)• Status (important or not)• Acceptance or rejection (why

people choose to believe it or not)

Ways of Knowing• Logic / Reason• Emotion / Intuition• Language• Perception

Areas of Knowledge• Natural Science• Human Science - Politics• Maths• Arts• Ethics - Religion• HistoryOther Key terms• Belief• Truth• Justification• Certainty• Methods• Values• assumptions

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