Badge: The Sleeper in the Shadowlands

Critical Thinking: The Five Levels of Certain

Primary Goal 

Teach the idea of the limits of knowledge and the danger of assumptions and faith. 

Pre-Requisite Achievements

  • Fire, Flower, and Blade 

Sub Skills

  • The Bonelands (The Five levels of Certain)
  • The Shadowlands (The Limits of Perception)
  • The Sleeper (Being Less Wrong)

The Achievement Requirements 

  • The Bonelands 
    • Recite and Explain the 5 Levels of Certain
  • The Shadowlands 
    • Explain the definitions of the Shadowlands and the Bonelands and distinction between them.
    • Explain the limits of perception and how a lack of awareness of those limits puts the individual at risk.
    • Explain methods of extending the limits of perception (i.e. with a telescope) 
  • The Sleeper 
    • Explain why science disproves rather than proves theories
    • Explain the difference between a scientific theory and the pop cultural definition of a theory. 
    • Explain the value of disprovable hypotheses and the risk of relying upon unprovable theses.