When you encounter a controversial knowledge claim,such as that the moon landings were faked,or that we shold not experiment on animals,how do you evaluate wether or not to accept it as true? (Do some ways of knowing have more influence in making your jud

We can take observe the situation of the animal testing to see which ways of knowing are used in knowledges claims inside it.

For example,the moon landing documentary we saw,it was shown clearly evidence that Moon Landing happened and didn`t happen at all.I must say that evidences which  go against the Moon Landing as true fact were strong and convicing in the masses,it can be mentioned the sky without stars,the wind which caused the movement of the flag, the movement of sand particles while the austronauts walked,the video which showed that Moon Landing was created in a studio or to show that USA gained against USSR.But still the fact that the trip to Moon is continuing in present,the live transmittion of Moon Landing in all the TV and the fact that USSR didn`t oppose it,make the claim that Moon Landing is true stay stronger as well.In both claims we should use reasons to justify them.As Descartes believed the only way to achieve certainity and knowledge was to follow the path of reason.But the evidence given created a moderate scepticism which represents a non extreme scepticism,it simply holds that we cannot be sure that any of our beliefs are true.There were people that believed that Moon landing was fake,other thought it was true and others were sceptic.The phenomenon of justifying your beliefs and your knowledge claims by using reason it is called rationalism.People can say that Moon Landing was true maybe because they might be Americans and they want this to be true.This way of knowing it is called emotion.But people who used to live i USSR thought it didn`t happen because of their emotion (they lost the race).It is obvious that emotions affect our beliefs and claims,sometimes makes us see the wrong thing,what it is not true.So we arrive in a conclusion that emotion it cannot be always a good way to judge situations.

Language it is an important way of knowing and it is necessary to know the language and then to deal with the truth of the knowledge claim.Language it is also used to convince people believe something that it can be or not true.Way the language is used can manipulate people`s view about a knowledge claim.

During the debate it was a main topic:`Animal testing and if experiments in animals are a good way to retrieve information from them.` There were 2 representatives: one side was against the experiments on animals and the other side was pro animal testing. During the debate there were discussed controversary knowledge claims such as animal testing should not procced as it causes pain to the animals and it can be used other ways for gaining information without causing paining to the animals.Other side replied by declaring that animal testing was necessary for the development of medicine,there were no other ways to get information but science was trying too to find new solutions.It was clear that during the debate the representative of The Speak Campaign had a lack of information, the reasons to convince  people that no experiments should be made on animals.Her speech was based  in emotions.She was arguing by saying that there should not be experiments on animals because they are sweet and similar with children but she wasn`t giving a real solution to problem.While the guy argments were too convincing and rationalist.He was arguing that it is right to prevent animal suffering from experiments made upon them,but it couldn`t be possible to stop the experiments on them for the only reason that there was no other solution to develop science; by using 100 animals can be saved 100000 human lifes; science was trying to find the right formula through computers system and at the moment that this would be achieved experiments on animals would stop automatically.Basically,what was he trying to say was that animals are important,but not as  important as humans and that we need these kind of testing to prevent any catastrophic health situation within us.The boy convinced the masses,and as a my conclusion i think that rationalism,reason is more convincing and stronger than emotions in n knowledge claim.

Sense perception is also one of the most important things in TOK.Knowledge gained throught observing and experimenting which is tightly related to sense perception. The problem is that our senses,can be not accurate (optical illusions); as a result all we gained through sense perception can be wrong and we can be sceptic about what we know.

But i must highlight that it is too difficult to use one of each way of knowing when you argue,usually they are found mix,reason mixed with emotion,language and sense perception.The most important question that remains is:`how can be sure that we know what we know?`