Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

III. Methods and tools
trms: Tahing a
Sarh
to spak English
dolphin
girl who talkd to
Th
YouTu
dolphins
aftr th optimism and ultimat fiaso
Dads
Dolphin Hous, what do w know aout th
of
taans us to ommuniat and
languag
What ould w larn aout languag,
how?
oth humans and non-humans, from
among
lin of nquiry? Do w hav diffrnt
this
or ttr qustions aout th potntial
answrs
ommuniating with intllignt animals on
of
At last, do w hav a sns of whr
Earth?
limits ar, of how far w ar willing to go in
th
th xtnt that languag influns your rality,
To
w hav nountrd argumnts in this haptr
and
suggst it dos, should w mor intntionally
that
languag towards thial or politial goals?
utiliz
I.2, xamining th onpts of growth and
Stion
provids on argumnt for this.
dvlopmnt,
this ook w hallng th ida that
Throughout
an “nutral”—so what dos nutral
knowldg
2 disusss how politial and soial will
Chaptr
takl limat hang has n undrmind y
to
alan—th attmpt at impartial rporting
fals
atually ovrstatd th as against
that
gloal warming. Shool txtooks,
anthropogni
this on, also hav a rol to play. Fals
inluding
was not a prolm of languag as muh
alan
of ditorial and journalisti prati, ut thr
as
a languag-rlatd quivalnt. “Chang” and
is
ar not words you assoiat with
“warming”
risis and mass animal-xtintion,
atastroph,
thy ar oftn also usd in rfrn
though
rsarh in this ara looks vry
Although
today, thr ar som striking
diffrnt
Prhaps our prsnt-day “girl who
parallls.
to dolphins” is a frdivr who
talks
on whals. Som of th popl—
avsdrops
marin sintists, mavrik linguists,
amatur
frdivrs, sound thnology
world-lass
study dolphin and whal
nthusiasts—who
today also hav vry
ommuniation
mthods and thoris. Thy too
unorthodox
th lins of onvntion. Jams Nstor tlls
push
story of ths rngad frdiving
th
working olltivly undr th nam
sintists,
in th linkd vido.
DarWin,
trms: Daring frdivr
Sarh
who talks to sprm
rgistrs and lvls of motionality
diffrnt
with diffrnt manings. Unitd
assoiatd
Srtary Gnral, António Gutrrs,
Nations
dsrid limat hang as a “risis” and
has
dirt xistntial thrat”. Grta Thunrg has
“a
argud “[i]t’s 2019. Can w all now
powrfully
it what it is: limat rakdown, limat
all
limat mrgny, ologial rakdown,
risis,
risis and ologial mrgny?”
ologial
in Carrington 2019).
(quotd
a study of nwspapr ovrag twn 2001
In
2015, Chrry Norton and Mik Hulm found
and
ditorials aout limat hang am
that
lss dividd on partisan lins. This may
muh
good nws, ut thy onvrgd towards an
narrativ—what you might
“Eomodrnist”
a “aland” or idologially unontntious
all
of th issu—that mphasizd
framing
and innovation as routs out of
thnology
risis, whil rognizing that adaptation to
th
wathr would nssary. It was
xtrm
a all to “thno-utopianism”, th ida that
also
4IV. Ethics
ordr to know?
I V. E T H I C S
IV.1 Language, emotion and truth
whals
languag looklik?
thnology will fr us from our trouls.
to th limat mrgny. Languags hav
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