EEEEEEEEEEEmotions!!

I honestly can not say whether emotions are the basis of all knowledge or whether knowledge is the basis of all emotions. I'll explain since that probably makes no sense to anyone but me:) okay so one must have the emotion to want to gain knowledge, yet how would we distinguish the emotion unless we had knowledge of it? Yet i want to say that all knowledge comes from emotion because although the emotion might not always be present when learning something, there had to be some type of emotion initially. At the same time I wonder if emotions are too easily swayed by the emotions and opinions of other human beings and therefore being

Descartes? or Hume?

Reason or Perception?? which is more valuable to human knowledge. As I have unfortunately learned in theory of knowledge class, there is no possible way to justify that either reason or perception soley is the "gateway" to knowledge. It is interesting that, although Rene Descartes and David Hume would never admit the other was correct, their central ideas of reason and perception correalate perfectly. Using my own knoweldge from both my "reason" and "perception" it is very difficult to aquire knowledge from just one way of thinking. This is how they realate to each other. One may reason something and this is generally done in the brain, unless of course there is yet another thing in the world which I fail to understand or even be aware of, Wheras Perception can be aquired through the senses. either way we reason stuff and then percieve it with our senses OR we percieve something through our senses and then we reason what an object is or if whatever it is actually exists. So if someone were to argue that either reason or perception were more important, id tell them from my point of view that they are narrow minded, because there are infinite possibilities in which one is used before the other but ultimately the other is used afterwards, and very few cases in which either reason or perception are used individually.

The vaccination! dun dun daaaaa

so my thoughts/ ideas on the H1N1 vaccine. hmmm I feel like I do not have enough information to decide wheather the vaccination would be beneficial or harmful. As well I am often very skeptical and do not like to believe what others say regardless of their arguement. That is probably why I feel it is unnecessary for myself to get this vaccination. I feel as though I need to live and learn and not have someone telling me whether I should or should not do somethig, after all experience can be the best teacher. haha oh well I guess if I do not get the vaccine and end up with H1N1 and somehow manage to die, you all can have some of my belongings. haha don't get me wrong, I see nothing wrong with getting the vaccination but I believe everything is subject to ones interpretation of the situation and ultimately is their own personal choice. In the case of H1N1 I do not see it as a life or death situation and therefore, as my grandmother would say "don't worry your pretty little head about it"

What do I know about language? absolutely nothing!

I have come to realize, the more I learn(particularly in TOk) the less I actually know. For goodness sakes I can not even understand what does and does not make a language, something which I have been learning for my whole life! However I do believe that language is subject to perception. For example I may believe body language is one of the most important aspects to a language, while another person would completely disagree and say WOW are you ever stupid that has nothing to do with language. I suppose there is no right or wrong answer, unfortunately for me this is a hard concept to catch hold of because I like it when things are "black and white", or "cut and dry" if you will. Oh well c'est la vie!

haha nothing can top staceys first title!

Language, language, laguage. It is certainly not made up of one component, be it: words, gestures, expression, or whatever else one may think makes a language. However the combination of these things is what makes language. The primary usage of language obviously being communication. I do agree with Hayley that body language is indeed important however i do not believe it is more important, but rather equally as important as spoken language. Essentially they work together, spoken language would simply be a string of words without body language just as body language would be meaningless movement without words to convey an idea. I believe that expression and voice inflection contribute greatly to making a language communicable and serving the purpose of conveying a thought or idea. For example, take the statement 'you look nice today.' Your best friend says " you look nice today" while someone else says "you look nice today"(creepy/old man, emphasis on the 'NICE'). The idea conveyed by your best friend is merely a compliment, while from the old man "o my goodness today this OLD man was hitting on me, what a perv!! Exactly the same words yet totally different impacts. Therefore I do not believe so much that it is 'what we say' but rather 'how we say things' that effects the communication and understanding of ideas from one human to another, provided the same language is being spoken by each individual