Discuss the roles of language and reason in history

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Phakapon Buraparat                                                           May 2011

IB School South                TOK Essay

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Discuss the roles of language and reason in history.

        History is one of the subjects in the area of knowledge. History doesn't only tell us about the past but it also helps us to understand the present and predict what will happen in the future. To be able to study history we need language. In history, language took the biggest role but it is not only language that be require it is also combine with reason. This two terms help to explain and make history more accuracy. In this essay will talk about what is language, what is reason and how these roles in history.

First, what is language? Language can be said to be a universal set of symbols that represent the world and can be used in communication and in the exchange of information. Examples of language can be found in almost every aspect of life such as reading the morning paper. Language can be spoken orally, or written down with different utensils such as stone carvings, computers among others, or even conveyed through drawing, body language or art were the language is more hidden for the spectator. Language is like a tool, like a hammer of the builder which the builder uses the hammer to build thing or building. As well as language can build up a hundred of things by speaking or ordering. Language is one of the ‘double-edged swords’ which me if you use language in the good correct way it could help you but if you use it in the wrong way in could also harm you. 

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Why do we need language in history, as we know from the definition that language used for communication. In history to be able for people in our generation to study we need language. On the other way before people start to have textbooks for study history, people used talking or communication to study or to know history. After one generation humans start to think that history is important, therefore people start to collect all the stuff that they had been known by talking or know from the older people develop it to the form of alphabet, letter to keep the ...

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