Prompt 6: How does the way we organise or classify knowledge affect what we know?

TOK Talk · How Does The Way That We Organize Or Classify Knowledge Affect What We Know - 8:3:22, 16.02

Today I’m joined by Liu Yu, aka Mr. LY, teacher of Chinese Humanities and Assistant Principal at ISF Academy in HK. We discuss Exhibition Prompt 6: How does the way we organise or classify knowledge affect what we know? We explore Confucian values in China as a way of organising knowledge (and by extension society) within Chinese culture. We also consider language and culture as ways we organize knowledge, and explore how in our personal experiences we’ve been able to step outside our own individual cultures in order to understand more about the world. 
We also really get into the challenge of language as a way we know about the world, and the complexities of translation, as well as how having more varieties of language allows us to become more aware of the nuances of our experiences around us. There is still a lot more to discuss about this question, especially in the realms of art, science and humanities! 
Thanks again to Bernard Wun for the guitar that brings us in and out of this one! Links for further investigation: 

• Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis ​“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Shui Hu 水虎  (Water Margin)
• All Men Are Brothers by Shi Nai'an, Luo Guanzhong, Pearl S. Buck
• Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder. 
• Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett
• Mood Meter App