As the summer heats up, let's think about perspectives and the ways they're provided. Consider three cartoons, the information they offer, and the ways that they deliver their messages. First, examine this installment of
xkcd, which allows you to draw your own conclusions (or does it?). Likewise, this
Doonesbury strip leaves the door open for readers to fall into the same trap as the patient--the first sign of effective satire. Then again, it was pretty cold this winter...For local noon on Wednesday, please compose and share two knowledge questions about the ways of knowing employed in these three comics.
KQ 1: In what ways does logic and reason influence imagination?
ReplyDeleteKQ 2: To what extent does science contribute to faith?
How do the knowers relate visual media to real world situations by using logic?
ReplyDeleteTo what extent does language influence a person's perspectives towards knowledge which she acquires through perception?
KQ 1: How can knowledge of logic inhibit or contribute to the knower's creativity
ReplyDeleteKQ 2: How can the knowledge of what we know today have a role in what we can know tomorrow?
ReplyDeleteKQ 1: To what extent is language needed in the interpretation of a visual’s meaning?
KQ 2: To what extent is emotion applied in the process of understanding the knowledge that we acquire through visual perception?
1. To what extent does language depend on its context and speaker/writer to mean what it was said/written to mean, and to what extent can sensual perception act as that context?
ReplyDelete2. How does reason and visual perception complement each other to help the knower comprehend information/knowledge?
KQ 1: How can logic and perception contradict each other simultaneously and still lead a knower to the same conclusion about knowledge?
ReplyDeleteKQ 2: To what extent is perception necessary for a knower to use other ways of knowing (logic, emotion, language) ?
KQ 1: In what ways does the understanding of logic inhibit or enhance the range of interpretation of knowledge?
ReplyDeleteKQ 2: To what extent does emotion affect language as a way of knowing and a way of interpreting?
KQ1: To what extent does art enhance and clarify a certain message?
ReplyDeleteKQ2: How does size in a certain piece of art influence the message that the knower gets from it?
Knowledge Question #1: To what extent does faith place a strain on science as a way of knowing?
ReplyDeleteKnowledge Question #2: Can art, as a visual way of knowing, affect the analysis and interpretation of a perspective?
KQ 1: To what extent does language influence a particular emotion connected to the knower's knowledge?
ReplyDeleteKQ 2: How can art and visual aid help to make the knower draw conclusions through logic?
To what extent can a knower rely on solely art and perception to provide truth
ReplyDeleteHow can a knowers past knowledge change the meaning of art, and thus can art hold only one version of the truth, or multiple (both sides of the story ish)?
kq1 : Without the use of words or language as a way of knowing, to what extent can sensory details, logics and emotion work together to effectively portray and interpret a message?
ReplyDeletekq2: How can the knower's imagination influence their overall perspective?
ReplyDeleteKQ 1: To what extent can visuals enhance a knower’s comprehension of logic and reason?
KQ 2: How can a knower’s perspective be altered by another's logic and art?