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Eyewitnesses: First-order knowledge claims: Over 70 percent of false convictions that have been overturned through DNA testing involved eyewitnesses who falsely chose a suspect, leading to the prosecution of the suspect. Eyewitness misidentification is the single biggest contributor to wrongful convictions. Certain measures can be taken to help make eyewitness accounts more accurate. Larger police departments have an easier time than smaller ones in incorporating many of their proposed reforms. Two recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings have prohibited life sentences for minors without the possibility of parole. Second-order knowledge claims: If the police reformed their system, then the prosecuting process would be a lot more fair, and would help reduce the number of innocents going to jail due to false eyewitnesses. We can be certain that faulty eyewitness testimonies are very common, and lead to many unfair prosecutions. It is certain that eyewitness testimonies ...

How do we know what we know? Theory of knowledge, otherwise known as TOK is a two year IB course that challenges our thinking of the world around us, and everything we know. To succeed in TOK you will need to analyze multiple profound questions with no right or wrong answer. This means that you will need to think from a variety of different perspectives in-class. This is made easier if your partner isn't someone your familiar with, or is someone who had a different upbringing than you did, making your conversations trying to answer these questions a lot more profound as you will have differing opinions on each question, and discussion. Map 1 Map 2 In fact, one common discussion usually used by TOK teachers is a quote by a famous scholar named Alfred Korzybski, where he says "The map is not the territory". This quote is quite famous and my personal interpretation of this quote is that we put borders on different locations of the worl...