IB TOK - Teacher Support Pack - Unit 6: Knowledge and Language

Contents

Unit 6. Knowledge and Language

- 6.1. What is language?
- Lesson 1: Signals and signs
- Lesson 2: Meaning

- 6.2. Language and thought
- Lesson 3: Concepts
- Lesson 4: A priori and a posteriori concepts
- Lesson 5: Spacetime
- Lesson 6: Linguistic nativism
- Lesson 7: The continuity hypothesis
- Lesson 8: Mentalese

- 6.3. Language and communication
- Lesson 9: Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
- Lesson 10: Translation
- Lesson 11: Machine translation
- Lesson 12: Loaded language

- 6.4. Language in the areas of knowledge
- Lesson 13: The role of language in Natural Sciences
- Lesson 14: The role of language in Human Sciences
- Lesson 15: The role of language in History
- Lesson 16: The role of language in Mathematics
- Lesson 17: The role of language in the Arts

Refer to this table for a general overview of how Themantic chapters map onto linear TOK units:

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