Why is the ruthless totalitarian regime, described in Orwell’s novel purging Oldspeak and imposing Newspeak? What assumptions are being made about the relationship between language and thought?
He wants to get rid of all 'useless' words such as synonyms, antonyms or any words that are not necessary to still have a communicative language. words such as bad can be replaced with ungood and excellent can be replaced with plusgood, therefore using the same word and reducing the amount of words in the language. He says that the less words in a language, the less people are going to think and thinking in his mind is not needed.
- knowledge claim: technology experts claim that in the future the management of our social networks will be dynamic and automated.
- Topic: future technology
- Ask and implicit question about the situation: what do we know about social networks?
- Formulate an open-ended question about knowledge in the context of the real life situation: what does it tell us about the development of technology?
- Formulate an explicit open-ended question about knowledge using TOK concepts: how can experience, memory and history of technological development allow us to predict the future development of technology?
- knowledge claim: Mr Moussay's grandfather says that the fruits on his trees are ripening earlier and earlier in the year and that this must be due to global warming.
- Topic: Global warming.
- Ask and implicit question about the situation: what does earlier ripening tell us about global warming?.
- Formulate an open-ended question about knowledge in the context of the real life situation: how does global warming cause the fruits to ripen?.
- Formulate an explicit open-ended question about knowledge using TOK concepts: what roles do reason and evidence play in identifying the cause of changes in nature?
