TOK Essay: What criteria do you use to distinguish between knowledge, opinion and propaganda?"

Title: "There are many different authorities, including academics, politicians, global organizations and companies, who make knowledge claims. As an experienced TOK student, what criteria do you use to distinguish between knowledge, opinion and propaganda?" Introduction These days, in the information age of the 21st century people in our society are engulfed in the mass media and receive many kinds of information. All this abundance of information raises fundamental questions on information its self. How much …

…that they're doing so through their own will and an opinion is simply a personal belief without any systemized plan for persuasion. I'm convinced that any types of knowledge claims, such as an expression of truth, of opinion, or of propaganda can are all still be referred to as knowledge. Clearly, truth is based on reason and logical thinking, opinion is just a personal belief, and propaganda a belief used as a tool to manipulate.