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Shared Knowledge

Decent Essays

Supervisor: Ross Campbell
Session: May 2015
Subject: TOK

With reference to two areas of knowledge, discuss how shared knowledge can help shape personal knowledge. 4.) With reference to two areas of knowledge; discuss how shared knowledge can help shape personal knowledge.
Personal and shared knowledge are two similar definitions which are clearly distinguished by one single word. There is a clear distinction between shared and person knowledge in the sense that personal knowledge always allows you to logically think/say, “I know” rather than “we know” which is used when discussing shared knowledge. Although personal knowledge and shared knowledge represent two different ideas, they somehow almost always manage to intersect one another in many aspects. With reference to both the arts and ethics, shared knowledge can help shape personal knowledge to a great extent, but personal knowledge, in contrast, can also help shape shared knowledge because of the two different implications …show more content…

Shared knowledge on the other hand helps shape personal knowledge because if the shared knowledge gets one to reflect on how the other personal knowledge you had affects the original knowledge and if it makes one see a connection they didn’t see before, the shared knowledge is affecting his/hers personal knowledge. Shared knowledge and personal knowledge may overlap and may be possibly inseparable, but can these two concepts imply the same thing? With reference to ethics and the arts, shared knowledge can without a doubt help shape personal knowledge, but it does in fact work the other way around as

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