Ranking+the+personal+and+impersonal+ways+of+knowing

Some interesting examples, but what about empirical is different from perception? Please reconsider what makes the empirical more valid than let's say, your example in belief or memory? They seem very similar. What detail separates them?
 * Your Truth Reliability Ranking || Source of Knowledge || Example and Explanation ||
 * 4 || Belief || I believe that the Earth is egg shape and not a perfect sphere. It is my belief that has the effect of my knowing or knowledge. It is my belief that says it is true and that it is knowledge. Also, evidence increases my belief and that is what always gives me the belief. Through evidence, could be experience or something that I can sense, will allow me to understand more about a specific thing and therefore I can conclude to believe it or not. Belief is number 4 because the way I believe something takes more than just saying ok, but having a more in-depth understanding of something that will give my belief a boost. For example, I believe that fire is hot not only because I have experienced being burnt but also the closer I get to the fire the warmer I feel so I conclude that if I touch the fire I will burn now I believe that fire is not and that is knowledge because it is as Plato said //justified true belief//. ||
 * 10 || Faith || I have faith in my sister to look after my bedroom. Since I have faith or trust in my sister I know or have knowledge that my bedroom will be looked after. Faith is obviously varied and can be misread. I see a person and have no faith in him yet he is one of the most honorable people you’ll ever meet or I have faith that I will get a good grade so I say I know that I will get a good grade and yet I don’t. ||
 * 2 || Acquaintance || I know that it will rain in May because for as long as I have lived here it rains in May. I have had some experience and knowledge about the situation and know what the outcome is based on some previous knowledge and relative experience. Acquaintance is ranked number 2 because of the background knowledge and information same as empirical however it is based on some basic form of knowledge. It is almost the same but the difference is that here you know more about something with experience and a bit of already knowing the situation. ||
 * 3 || Practice || I practice how to kick a soccer ball and therefore over time and experience I am able to acquire the knowledge of how to kick a soccer ball. With practice you experience things and help develop an understanding of things, which will give you more insight and knowledge of that specific thing. I rank it number 2 for this reason, that it is something that can be done using most of your senses so its more true to you and it is more reliable in terms of a personal understanding and comprehension of the specific thing. ||
 * 5 || Introspection || I ask myself, why am I doing this TOK homework? I begin to have an intellectual conversation with myself and am able reach a conclusion that will make sense to my understanding, however, I may be wrong in the sense that my initial understanding was wrong. ||
 * 11 || Empathy || I feel bad that you lost your dog. I know how you feel because I have either have had first hand experience with this type of situation or can sense your feeling by your crying and depression. Empathy, however, cannot be so reliable due to the fact that you will never truly and fully understand a situation of another person. ||
 * 6 || Instinct || A lion at a zoo is used to having meat thrown at him since he was born. Yet, when this beast is placed back in the wild he will know how to hunt and kill naturally. Instinct is a set of knowledge put in all creatures that will always be there, maybe lost, but still there. ||
 * || Ethics || The boy would not steal the skateboard because he knew that there would be consequences without actually having sensed or experienced any of these consequences. This is because the boy was brought up with a set of morals or had ethics that provided guidance. ||
 * 8 || Authority || I know that going slow on a highway is wrong because the cop stopped me and said that it was wrong. I know that going slow on a highway is wrong because the officer who is an authority told me not to go slow yet I may not have been going that slow but because he was an authority I know not to go at that given speed again. His authority intimidated me. ||
 * 9 || Logic || A=B and B=C so therefore A=C. This is logic and can considerably be true. However it is not much reliable because I can say fire is yellow and hot so a sunflower is hot or ice is blue and cold so blue fire is also cold. ||
 * 1 || Empirical || I observed and experienced that fire is hot and that if it is blue yellow or even green it will burn. All this is acknowledged through my observation and or experience. For this reason it is, in my opinion, the best way of knowing because it is related to reasoning of what you have observed and or experienced. It is a first hand determination that uses your perception and emotion then leads into your reasoning, which is what gives your knowledge. ||
 * 7 || Memory || I remember that touching the stove while it was red burnt me, so when I see a stove that turned red I will not touch it because as memory serves it was hot. For memory you need some form of experience. ||