Rational knowledge, unlike empirical knowledge, is knowledge we believe is true because it seems reasonable, and fits in with other things we know are true. It is often more theoretical than empirical [..]

The position of agnostics is that the existence or non-existence of god is unproven, but that either of these truths is a possibility. Typically they do not involve themselves in any form of worship, [..]

In contrast to mimesis, is the idea that real life imitates art. It was most famously proposed by Oscar Wilde, in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying. The implication of this is that we base our underst [..]

Alongside the ways of knowing, TOK is divided into eight areas of knowledge: the arts, ethics, history, human sciences, indigenous knowledge systems, mathematics, natural sciences, and religious knowl [..]

An artistic license is to have the right claimed by artists to express themselves without having to adhere precisely to the truth. This presents problems when artistic works (such as films) are used b [..]

The arts are both a way of knowing and an area of knowledge in that they involve a method (like natural sciences) and a body of work. In TOK, we look at many different aspects of the arts, such as mus [..]

Atheism is an active belief in the non-existence of god. Unlike agnosticism, which simply says that the existence of god is unproven, atheism says definitively that there is no god, citing the lack of [..]

A Barnum statement (also known as the ‘Forer Effect’) is the term given to a statement about a person that they believe correctly describes them – such as a horoscope or ‘psychic reading’ – but which [..]

Blanket terminology is the name given to a term that assigns the same name to a range of often unrelated or disparate group of events, phenomena, or ideas. It is found most commonly in history, in whi [..]

Cargo cults, which have mostly died out, were quasi-religious movements situated in Pacific Islands that revered the material goods of Western colonizers. Natives of these islands, mostly unaware of h [..]