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INVESTIGATION

 

SIGNIFICANCE

Why is the answer important?

 

 

IMPLICATIONS

What will happen if I  manage to answer the question? What if I don’t?

 

QUESTION

HOW CAN I KNOW…X?

I have to take or rethink the following action

/decisions:

I have more certainty

 or more doubt.

——

I have a new question

 

SELF

 

 

 (using the Ways of Knowing)

 

OTHERS

 

 

 (using the Ways of Knowing)

 

· How have others attempted to answer the question?

· What assumptions, facts, arguments, are implicit/explicit in their claims?

· How do they justify claims?

· How strong is their justification?

· What is the extent of their knowledge/authority in this AoK?

· Can their justifications be verified?

 

 

 

· What assumptions, facts, arguments, are implicit/explicit in my claims?

· How do I justify claims?

· How strong is my justification?

· What is the extent of my knowledge

· in this AoK?

· Can my justifications be verified?

 

EVALUATION

How valid is this claim/are these claims?

EVALUATION

How valid is my claim?

CONCLUSION

Whose claim has greater validity?

Is it an either/or matter?

 

· SUPPORT FOR MY CLAIM

· What assumptions, facts, arguments, are implicit/explicit in my claim?

· How do I justify my claim?

· How strong is my justification?

· What is the extent of my knowledge/experience/authority in this field?

· Can my justifications be verified?

· How does my personality, personal history, culture influence the way I regard this matter?

· Is it possible to be objective?

 

 

COUNTERCLAIM(S)

· What claims contradict mine ?

· What assumptions, facts, arguments, are implicit/explicit in these counterclaims?

· How do others justify their claims?

· How strong is their justification?

· What is the extent of their authority in this field?

· Can their justifications be verified?

· How does their personality, personal history, culture influence the way they regard this matter?

· Is it possible to be objective?

 

IMPLICATION

Where do I go from here?

Knowing X, will I have to :

Modify my views on other matters so my ideas remain coherent?

Take action?

 

EVALUATION

Why does my claim have greater validity?

Could my claim be weaker in a different context?

Is it an either/or matter?

 

CLAIM:

I know that X

 

because

CLAIMS

QUESTIONS