Reasoning for Knowledge

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These advanced exercises are designed to help you understand some important concepts used in reasoning and ascertaining knowledge. They are particularly helpful for use with the International Baccalaureate's Theory of Knowledge unit in the Diploma Programme and University programmes.

Choose a topic:

Knowing

• Knowledge as justified true belief
• A priori & a posteriori
• Three theories of truth
• Objective & subjective
• Syntax & semantics

Reasoning

• Deductive & Inductive
• Validity & Soundness
• Fallacies
• Predictions & Hypotheses
• Science & pseudo-science

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