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hi guys welcome back to Tok today I'm
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Daniel and today we're looking at the
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exhibition prompt are some types of
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knowledge more useful than other types
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of knowledge
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so before we get into that let me just
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point you in the direction of the May
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2022
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um Tok subject report all right if you
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want to get high marks in your Tok
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exhibition then I really recommend
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checking this out the subject report
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tells you that the most important factor
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in the Tak exhibition is specificity
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a word I have trouble saying specificity
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um specificity of the object and
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specificity of the object to the prompt
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and the knowledge argument or knowledge
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claim
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and it's because of this subject report
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that I recommend working out your three
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knowledge arguments before you pick your
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objects and writer exhibition so work
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out three knowledge arguments which come
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from The Prompt each knowledge argument
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can then be related to an object which
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demonstrates
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that knowledge argument and then that
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helps you
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um to come up with specific knowledge
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discussions which will give you a high
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Mark in the exhibition the full
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commentary for today's exhibition that's
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the written commentary can be found at
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toktoday.com I'll put the link in the
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video description and there's lots of
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other Tok commentaries that you can find
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on the site well a few exhibition
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commentaries
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okay without any further Ado let's get
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into this are some types of knowledge
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more useful than others
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when I'm looking
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I'm the prompt I'm thinking can I bring
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in some Tok type Concepts like
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reliability accuracy truth
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interpretation and evidence and I'm
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looking at that word useful and I'm
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thinking
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useful to whom and for what purpose and
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in what context
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as I already said you need to be uh
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coming up with your three knowledge
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arguments before you come up with your
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objects it just makes things a lot
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easier later on in the exhibition
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and here are my three knowledge
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arguments knowledge argument one
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contextually specific knowledge is more
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useful than contextually general
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knowledge
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uh knowledge argument to falsified
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knowledge that is uh sort of wrong
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answers in shorthand can be more useful
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and knowledge argument three all
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knowledge can be of equal use it's the
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interpretation that matters uh these are
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just examples of knowledge arguments you
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can come up with your own from those
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knowledge arguments I then identified
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some objects and object one I identified
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with my copy of the book Walkabout by
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James Vance Marshall that I read during
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year 7 or grade six at school when I was
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11 years old and this demonstrates
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knowledge argument one about the role of
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context in determining the use of
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knowledge we then have to link the real
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world context of objects one to The
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Prompt well in this book an indigenous
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Australian boy saves the lives of two
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non-indigenous Australians by using
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knowledge
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when I read this at 11 years old it was
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the first time that I've realized that
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the usefulness of knowledge is
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contextual I then have to link that
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object to the knowledge arguments so I'm
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going to say that Walkabout shows that
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knowledge can be highly contextual in
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both meaning and application and that
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the context can give knowledge a
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function out of context the same
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knowledge can lack function and meaning
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and this is sort of functionalist
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approach to knowledge which could
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suggest a mutually inclusive
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relationship between the production and
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the application of knowledge I'm arguing
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that context is primary in determining
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the type of knowledge which is useful
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I'm not going to justify the inclusion
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of object 1 in the exhibition
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and I will say the object one
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demonstrates the contextual usefulness
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of knowledge by contrasting indigenous
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knowledge with non-indigenous knowledge
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and this is highly effective for Young
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Learners who are yet to uncouple
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personal experience for experiences of
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others quickly moving on to object two
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object two is the Domino set that I used
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to play with my grandfather when I was a
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child I remember that knowledge argument
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here is the falsified knowledge that is
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wrong answers can be more useful than
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confirmatory knowledge
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I'm going to link the real world context
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of object 2 to the prompt
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um so as a child playing dominoes with
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my grandfather I didn't understand why
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he would usually win and then I realized
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that he was remembering which dominoes I
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wasn't able to match and therefore he
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was ascertaining which Domino's I did or
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didn't have in my hidden hand
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and this was the first time that I
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realized that definite false knowledge
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was more helpful to gain specific
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knowledge than positive confirmatory
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knowledge is when a range of answers are
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possible
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I've got to link this Domino set to the
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knowledge argument to knowledge argument
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two and I'm going to say that the
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usefulness of knowledge may depend on
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the purpose of the knowledge and the
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method of knowledge production or
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acquisition being used
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seeking confirmed negatives and dominoes
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is similar to testing the null
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hypothesis in the scientific method and
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the scientific method is based on
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deductive reasoning which requires the
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development of specific Knowledge from a
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set of General observations
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this is easier to do if we know which
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observations may be wrong and therefore
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false knowledge may be more useful than
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confirmed knowledge
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I'm now going to justify the inclusion
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of object two and I'm going to say that
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the usefulness of knowledge may depend
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on the breadth of the range of possible
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answers eliminating possibilities
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increases the probability of finding
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correct answers
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and this is particularly shown with um
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dominoes the scientific method is based
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on this form of deductive reasoning and
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it leads to knowledge with a very high
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level of reliability and this has easily
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demonstrated and when a child this is
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easily demonstrated to a child when
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they're playing dominoes
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and then finally we come to object three
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my object three is Fleming's petri dish
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of the penicillium mold that he found
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growing in its petri dish in 1935 and
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this of course links to the knowledge
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argument that all knowledge can be of
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equal use
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and it's the interpretation of knowledge
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that matters not the type of knowledge
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and I have to link the real world
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context of object three to the prompt
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so I'm going to say that Fleming
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realized the mold growing in the petri
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dish was killing the bacteria that he
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intended to grow in the dish and from
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that realization we have the development
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of the medicine penicillin which has
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been widely used to treat hundreds of
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millions of people over the last 80
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years as such penicillin constitutes a
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useful type of knowledge
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so what's this got to do with the
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knowledge argument linking the object to
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the knowledge argument well we're saying
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here that Fleming realized that the mold
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which was growing in his dish could be
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medically useful the mold is usually
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thought of as a worthless byproduct but
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Fleming
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reinterpreted that knowledge to show
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that it could be useful therefore it's
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not the type of knowledge that
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determines the usefulness of knowledge
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but the interpretation of the knower
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that's important in making the knowledge
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useful and finally we justify the
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inclusion of the penicillium mode in
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this top exhibition and I'm going to say
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that when I realized about this when I
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learned about this I realized that
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knowledge is defined by its
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interpretation and its meaning both
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interpretation and meaning are dynamic
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or relative and contingent penicillin is
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a strong example of how knowledge which
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is thought to be useless can be
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reinterpreted as being
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useful
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and then like three objects and my Tok
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exhibition comes in object one is three
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to five words object two is three one
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three words and object three is three
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two four words so that makes about
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957 words something like that so I've
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got to get rid of about three words
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