TOK class 1/26
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We continued talking about the "good reasons" from chapter 2
of Abel.

Mainly we discussed how someone becomes an authority figure for us,
and how we decide what is true when different authority figures
disagree on certain issues. One reason given as to how an authority
figure gains that status is through trust. By trust I mean that over
a period of time, they prove that they are knowledgable in a particular
area and that what they say about that topic should be trusted. Most
people said that they stopped always believing in what their parents
said at some point in their lives. We talked about what made everybody
stop believing in what their parents always said.

Next we talked about how reliable consensus was to verify a knowledge
claim. Surprisingly, it works most of the time. We talked about if that
is the case, and if so, why? 

We ended class talking about revalation, faith and the difference between
the two. We also talked about how strong faith is as a justification for
knowledge. Invariably, the discussion started getting into specific
religions, even though that wasn't necessarily the goal of discussing
faith as a justification for knowledge. In particular, we talked some
about the role of interpretation with religious texts, such as the bible.
We also brought up questions such as, "Is it still faith if you pick and
choose different bits of different religions to base your faith from?"
This question came up as a response to people stating that they had faith,
but not one that perfectly corresponded to the literal word of the Bible,
or the beliefs of the church that they attended.