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Ways of Knowing are a check on our instinctive judgements

Ways of Knowing alter the perception of a person's instinctive judgements

  • Why are people's embedded instincts susceptible to change?
  • Why are learned behaviors difficult to change?
  • Why are some ways of knowing (faith) more effective on a person's instinct than others (reason)?
  • Some people do not always alter their judgments based on their knowledge
  • Learned behaviors are easily forgotten through behavioral conditioning
  • Faith is reason to certain people
  • Discuss real world examples (Christians  believe in predestination which leaves little room for logic)
  • Personal examples (Touching an iron as a child becomes a memory and effects one's instinct NOT TO EVER TOUCH AN IRON AGAIN OH GOD THAT WAS THE WORST
  • Make sure to differ between belief and instinct (are they all that different?)
  • Include the ways of knowing that most effectively support thesis

Ways of Knowing can be a result of instinctive judgements

  • Why does instinct come before experience?
  • Instinctive judgments can be false
  • Are instinctive judgments a result of a person's upbringing?
  • Some people do not acquire instincts until they experience something
  • Instinctive judgments are usually true (Why is that?)
  • The ways of knowing are, arguably, incorporated into a person's upbringing
  • Research instinctive behaviors (catching or dodging something coming towards you or other reflexes)
  • The eye on the stove is red with heat, a coke can is also red; should I not touch it?
  • Imagination is often stressed during childhood. How does that affect a person's instinctive behavior?

Learned behavior can be a result of ways of knowing or can be altered by the ways of knowing 

  • ​Is emotion a learned behavior?
  • Can innate behavior be changed?
  • What alters learned behavior?
  • Emotion is innate
  • Innate behavior cannot be changed, it is embedded
  • Instinct is also innate, not learned
  • Research various experiments regarding innate and learned behavior
  • Determine your opinion on which ways of knowing are learned and which ones are innate (provide support!!!)
  • Can ways of knowing alter innate/learned behavior? HOW? PROVIDE EXAMPLES
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