richard p. feynman on uncertainty “i think it's much more interesting to live not knowing...

Richard P. Feynman on Uncertainty

• “I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about.”

Constructing a Knowledge Issue

A step by step guide

AOK/ WOK Linking questions/ wordsMathematics Belief

Ethics Certainty

Natural Sciences Culture

Human Sciences Evidence

History Experience

The Arts Explanation

Interpretation

Sense Perception Intuition

Language Justification

Emotion Truth

Reason Values

Steps

1. Take one or two words from column 1

2. Take one or two words from column 2

3. Relate them to the real-life issue or topic under discussion in the form of an open question

Examples

• Real- life question issue:‘Wikipedia says that Bangkok is in Thailand

• KI:‘How can I use reason to know whether information from an internet source is

accurate and reliable?’

AOK/ WOK Linking questions/ words

Mathematics Belief

Ethics Certainty

Natural Sciences Culture

Human Sciences Evidence

History Experience

The Arts Explanation

Interpretation

Perception Intuition

Language Justification

Emotion Truth

Senses Values

Examples

‘The choice of the phrase “all men are created equal” instead of “all humans...” set back women’s rights 200 years.

KI:‘To what extent does the choice of words to express ideas subconsciously alter our

understanding of them?’

AOK/ WOK Linking questions/ words

Mathematics Belief

Ethics Certainty

Natural Sciences Culture

Human Sciences Evidence

History Experience

The Arts Explanation

Interpretation

Perception Intuition

Language Justification

Emotion Truth

Senses Values

Examples

‘My homeopath says the contents of this bottle will cure me, but my doctor says they will do nothing at all.’

KI: ‘How reliable are scientific methods when used to test apparently incompatible claims

about how the world works?’

AOK/ WOK Linking questions/ words

Mathematics Belief

Ethics Certainty

Natural Sciences Culture

Human Sciences Evidence

History Experience

The Arts Explanation

Interpretation

Perception Intuition

Language Justification

Emotion Truth

Senses Values

So, is it a knowledge issues?

Is the SUBJECT of the questions about knowledge? Or how we know something? Or what affects our belief of something? Our perception of something? Etc....

X Is the subject a topic that could have a clear answering talking about a ‘real’ thing