Language

People nowadays express their feelings and thoughts throughout speaking and listening, which is the most common thing in the world and it is the simplest way of communicating with other people. But, it would require something what we call it "language" for us to understand what she/he is trying to tell us and communicate without using body signs. The world just has developed a much simpler way of communicating but yet the problem was the requirement of the similar country language. There are more than 2000 languages in the world, and it is impossible for human to learn all of them, not even close to most of them. 

So what if there was a case where you and a person met but have totally different languages and couldn't communicate at all using words? There was a teacher called Mr. Tomalin who gave us a short story about his family member, whom wasn't part of his country and spoken different language but his experience was that it wasn't impossible at all to communicate fairly well. They would mostly be using body language and face expression, to understand each other and according to his story, he told us that he spent the whole day trying to communicate which came out to be successful and managed to learn some of her (his family member) language too. Thanks to Mr. Tomalin for sharing his interesting story in fact, related to our TOK topic and taught us that there are a lot of different ways to communicate besides using language.

Empiricism/Senses

Empiricism, a theory of knowledge that comes primarily from sensory experience, a study of human knowledge which comes with rationalism, idealism, and historicism. Empiricism emphasizes the role of experience and evidence, referring to sensory perception, creation of ideas depending on their traditional culture which they sense different due to relations of their previous sense experience. 

There are several types of empiricism which are classical, radical and moderate empiricism. Classical Empiricism is a concept written by John Locke that at birth we know nothing, that as we live along we gain information to our mind by our own experience. Radical empiricism is that it holds all our knowledge is gained from our senses meaning that by experience, we confirm that it is real. In a daily real life talk, people usually talk about what they have experienced or else the conversation will turn out to be meaningless, it is impossible to talk about things we had never experienced in life before. Moderate empiricism, which means we do not necessarily use our sense to use or gain our knowledge, referring to the general rule. Examples such as "triangles have three sides" or "100 + 100 = 200" does not necessary have to be investigated in order to find out the answer, it is just a basic knowledge a human has. Some empiricists determine that Moderate empiricism is more reasonable than radical empiricism.