FRENCH FRIES!!!!!!

How would Gladwell respond to the responsibility question from September 15th? (Does the producer of this knowledge have any responsibility? What is your responsibility as a knower?)

I think that the producer of this knowledge has the responsibility of allowing everyone to view it. If it were to be kept from the public, it would not follow Plato’s view of truth, where it has to be public for all people to know it and read it. People who eat at fast food places and eat these fries should know how they are made. Also, this article describes the transition to vegetable oil. Most people don’t know that this made the French fries unhealthier. “In the course of making vegetable oil suitable for deep frying, it is subjected to a chemical process called hydrogenation, which creates a new substance called a trans unsaturated fat… they wreak havoc with the body's ability to regulate cholesterol.” Most people do not know this information and it is the responsibility of the producer to bring it the reader’s attention.
Our responsibility as the reader is to understand what the author is doing making a point of this fact. It is up to the reader to make his or her own decision on whether to act upon this information.

class notes

Plato

• wanted knowledge that provided "certainty"
• it has to be described
• communicated effectively to others (must be convincing to reasonable people)
• certain knowledge: knowledge by description

different names for this

• platonic knowledge
• knowledge by description
• propositional knowledge (formal statement of convincing knowledge)
• knowing that

platonic knowledge

justification

• empiricism: knowledge by experience (seeing, touching, smelling, tasting, hearing)
• induction: from a specific to general theory
• deduction: from a general to specific theory
• rationalism: knowledge be previous knowledge ( A Priori knowledge)

truth

• is eternal
• is public
• is independent from a belief system

belief

• necessary but not sufficient
• component to knowledge

McDonalds ingredients

Big Mac® Bun: Enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, high fructose corn syrup, yeast, soybean oil, canola oil, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, contains 2% or less of each of the following: sesame seed, salt, wheat gluten, calcium sulfate, ammonium sulfate, monocalcium phosphate, ammonium chloride, calcium carbonate, baking soda, soy flour, dough conditioners (may contain one or more of the following: distilled monoglycerides, DATEM, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, enzymes, ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate, guar gum, mono-and diglycerides, calcium peroxide), calcium propionate & sodium propionate (preservatives), soy lecithin


Big Mac® Sauce: Soybean oil, pickle relish [diced pickles, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, vinegar, corn syrup, salt, calcium chloride, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate (preservative), spice extractives, polysorbate 80], distilled vinegar, water, egg yolks, high fructose corn syrup, onion powder, mustard seed, salt, spices, propylene glycol alginate, sodium benzoate (preservative), mustard bran, sugar, garlic powder, vegetable protein (hydrolyzed corn, soy and wheat), caramel color, extractives of paprika, soy lecithin, turmeric (color), calcium disodium EDTA (protect flavor). CONTAINS: WHEAT, EGG AND SOY.

the Omnivore's dilemma

Did any information in the book come as a surprise to you? If so, why do you think that specific piece of knowledge was kept from you? Does the producer of this knowledge have any responsibility? What is your responsibility as a knower?



a piece of information that came as a surprise to me was how much the american culture treats food as a marketing tool. everything that we eat is all based on what is supposed to be healthy at that time. also all these studies tell us what is the best food to eat for weight loss, and then a few years later it is told that the food we are eating to loose weight is actually causing weight gain. and the people who tell us the food we are eating is bad told us five years earlier that the food we are eating is good and healthy. i think that this knowledge about food trends is kept from people becuase eatinf trends are the most popular trends and have the biggest market. since there are so many choices for a person to choose from, these trends are need to steer people towards certain foods to eat. if we knen why these eating trends were created people would not pay thousands for the type of food and resort to eating what they like. the producer of the knowledge is responsible for keeping the buyers in the dark so they will not question the test.

knowing

How do we Know what we Know? What evidence do you have to support your claim

i think that we know when we acknowledge that the information is there. knowledge is a way of perfroming what information we have. without performing this task, we dont know any information. the evidence that i have to support this is that everything is information and a transfer of information is the first step of knowing. after that, if a task is performed with the information it acknowledges the memory of the user

Do parents matter?

i think that parents do matter in the development of a child. even if their characteristics are already programed into them, ethical problems are things that are taught to the child and not programed into them. also, i think that parents are significant in the development in a child's living style. this would include hygiene, clothing style, and diet. however, i agree that a child's peers do affect them and their actions more than parents do. but all that a child learns is a direct influence from their parents.