| What is your TOK essay topic? (06/07) | | 1. Evaluate the role of intuition in different areas of knowledge. | | 0% | [ 0 ] | | 2. Are reason and emotion equally necessary in justifying moral decisions? | | 27% | [ 3 ] | | 3. "History is always on the move, slowly eroding todays orthodoxy and making space for yesterday's heresy." Discuss the extent to which this claim applies to history and at least one other Area of Knowledge. | | 9% | [ 1 ] | | 4. Does language play roles of equal importance in different areas of knowledge? | | 18% | [ 2 ] | | 5. "... we will always lean more about human life and human personality from novels than from scientific psychology." (Noam Chomsky) To what extent would you agree? | | 18% | [ 2 ] | | 6. In areas of knowledge such as the arts and the sciences, do we learn more from work that follows or that breaks with accepted conventions? | | 27% | [ 3 ] | | 7. Our senses tell us that a table, for example, is a solid object; science tells us that the table is mostly empty space. Thus two sources of knowledge generate conflicting results. Can we reconcile such conflicts? | | 0% | [ 0 ] | | 8. Are some ways of knowing more likely than others to lead to truth? | | 0% | [ 0 ] | | 9. Mathematicians have the concept of rigorous proof, which leads to knowing something with complete certainty. Consider the extent to which complete certainty might be achievable in mathematics and at least one other area of knowledge. | | 0% | [ 0 ] | | 10. "Context is all." (Margaret Atwood) Does this mean that there is no such thing as truth? | | 0% | [ 0 ] |
| | Total Votes : 11 | | | |
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Lucas
Number of posts : 21
Age : 34
Localisation : Lusaka, Zambia
Registration date : 2007-04-25
 |  Subject: TOK  Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:08 am | |
| Which topic for your TOK essay did you choose? Do you like it? Having difficulties? Want to rant about E-prime? Want to learn about e-prime? This is all about TOK. Please take the poll and post at will! | |
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kushang
Number of posts : 18
Registration date : 2007-04-25
| | Subject: POST MAN PPAAAATTTTT Wed May 02, 2007 1:48 am | |
| if wanna learn about e prime you can go to this site: www.google.comand type in E PRIME PRESS SEARCH | |
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kushang
Number of posts : 18
Registration date : 2007-04-25
| | Subject: POST MAN PPAAAATTTTT Wed May 02, 2007 1:49 am | |
| if wanna learn about e prime you can go to this site: www.google.comand type in E PRIME PRESS SEARCH | |
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