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when I write any essay/paper, saying "I think..." or "I believe that..." is not acceptable, what about in the TOK Essays, because are they not BASICALLY personal answers?
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My group and I have formulated a topic for our TOK presentation and it is "Does Race exist?" I thought of this topic because my 8th grade history teacher was the one to first bring it up in a class and i was really interested in it. Is this topic too cliche or not creative enough etc. Can anyone give me feedback on this. Thanks in advance.
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Hi, my group is doing a ToK Presentation on clining and whether restictions should be placed on it or not. and im talking in favor of cloning (not necessarily humans, but organs etc) and I have writtin this so far: "What possible reasons do we have to forbid such a great advancement to modern science? Science has so far only brought prosperity to the human race. Look at life before the industrial revolution: people lived on farms with a low standard of living. Power was supplied by humans and animals and low quality hand-crafted goods were made at home. Today the average standards of living have gone up and we have had several ground breaking discoveries such as the Wo…
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one of my final tok presentations (we do 2 then choose our best mark, and i want this one to be the good one) is coming up and i wanted to do mine on rumours/gossip but im unsure what my contemporary problem should be; i don't know how to cut "rumours" down, what sort of knowledge issues to look at. any ideas?
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Hi everyone...i am doing my tok presentation in relation with the LHC (large hadron collider). some knowledge issues that im thinking about are: to what extent is spending 3.2-6.4 billion euros necessary in the name scientific research when a large part of the world is already in immediate danger from poverty and crime? How will our universe and our perception of knowledge change when the results of the LHC are complete and various discoveries have been made some of which possibly being paradigm shifts? Can using media in a knowingly false manner so as to trick the public and shape their view be justified?...I want to include these in my presentation. I will discuss…
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For those who have watched Big Bang theory, I'm doing a skit around 5-7 minutes on Plato, Locke, and Kant, and the three characters I will use to represent them are Leonard, Sheldon, and Raj. If you have never watched this series before, I highly recommend it! But for those who have, do you think it's a good idea? I finished a six page script on it, but I'm not sure if it will work or not.
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I am about to start my topic, i will hand it in today ! and i thought of doing it about colors ! since it is included in every area of knowledge ! is it a good topic ? any advices ?
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Hey.. I have to prepare and deliver a presentation which is: • 10 minutes in duration • On a contemporary topic • Raises knowledge issues (i.e. possibilities and problems of knowledge) related to "Knowledge and Belief" • Focuses on an AoK and relevant WoKs. I was hoping someone could help me out with choosing a current affair which relates to knowledge and belief and maybe just help me to get started, because I am having a bit of trouble. Thanks
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I was wondering, what makes a great TOK paper?
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I know this sounds stupid but for an assignment i have to disprove gravity pulls us down to earth, that ice melts, and that heaven exists. People in my class had to write down 3 of their beliefs and then they got passed around and we have to disprove them. So any thoughts how i can about it?
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Hi, I would like some advice. My topic for my tok presentation is : is it ethical to airbrush pictures for a better 'effect' I will be discussing cultural impacts for example celebrities airbrushed to look thin etc and the impact on girls and women. My questions would be: is this a too over-done topic? and i'm having a hard time coming up with knowledge issues. i'm thinking i should define ethical first. and now i'm stuck ;( btw i'm doing this presentation by myself. Thanks in advance (:
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ok so out TOK IA is due soon, and I have never really written a great TOk paper...can someone help me please, im posting a little of what i have so far so that i can get some feed bck Attachment removed
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there is a statement where it says 'we see and understand things not as they are but as we are" are there any examples for this statement? I can't think of anything real
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I Have to write an introduction to my TOK essay ffor next week my Question is "To What extent is truth different in mathematics, the arts and ethics?" i really need help!!
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Hi i am not really sure of what the interpretation of this title is...can you please help me.. its prescribed title #1 "Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks: but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house" (henri Poincare). Discuss in relation to science and atleast on other area of knowledge.
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Hey guys, Im currently in the early stages of my TOK presentation (the first one) and I've decided to do a topic on non-verbal communication, and the importatnce of it etc. I'm having trouble, however, figuring out how to link it really clearly to a 'knowledge issue', as all i can really think of that could be a knowledge issue is how we know and interpret what people are thinking and feeling through n-v communication. I'd really appreciate some help/suggestions for how I could link a knowledge issue to this. Thanks a lot!
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need help with any availible examples on how cultural bias or any other factors cause obseity. need any availible talking points, or any availible help.
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I'm doing my tok oral on how do we know if steroids are a negative influence on sports and i have no idea how to get started. was thinking about relating it to the mitchell report somehow and the effect of pro athletes using steroids on high school and college athletes. any suggestions of knowledge issues or any other ideas would be much appricated. thnks!
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So we got our marks back today for our presentations (they were mock, of course) and my TOK teacher gave us this spiel about how TOK is graded way harder than all the other courses and she's never given a ninety (which is an A for the essay) to anyone. Is this just my school/my teacher or is TOK generally this screwy? Also, why is an 85 a C? Is it just me or does that seem weird?
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hey everyone, i need some help...what were the main differences between John Locke's and Descartes theory of knowledge? Thx a lot
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im confused on how exactly the TOK essay is marked, if anyone knows or has somekinda mark scheme or something??! also, i couldnt find TOK sample essays which got the highest grades to help get an idea on how exactly to start. i would really appreciate the help!!
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Im struggling with a suitable knowledge issue for this topic .. i was thinking .... how can you justify the taking of a life ... but i don't think its strong enough .. .do you have any suggestions ... any other possible knowledge issues ...
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Can someone please help me in finding efficient examples. If i have this then I can write a paragrah around it...its wierd i know, most have a topic then they find an example..jeje what i was planning on doing was first define reason, then two paragraphs on strengths then two on weaknesses and finally in my conlusion what i think..how does that sound? can i get a decent grade with this outline? anything you can tell my will help! thank youu!!
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I have my T.O.K presentation coming up soon ... i was thinking about the relationships ... how do people know they love each other ... any thoughts ... ideas etc ....
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We're doing a practice essay in class, and I was just wondering if it was okay to qualify. Here's our practice topic: Statistics can be very helpful in providing a powerful interpretation of reality but also can be used to distort our understanding. Discuss some of the ways in which statistics can be used or misused in different Areas of Knowledge to assist and mislead us, and how we can determine whether to accept the statistical evidence that is presented to us.
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"In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance" - Henry Miller Is this true? Thoughts on the subject, examples, or counter-arguments? Just looking to get a second opinion.
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We have an oral presentation this week. Our task is to choose two philosophers and summarize their main ideas related to the nature of truth and knowledge. We have to compare and contrast their similarities and differences, and use specific details and examples. It's basically analyzing the philosophers and their major ideas. I HAVE NO IDEA WHICH PHILOSOPHERS I'M GOING TO DO, AND I CAN'T FIND ANY GOOD RESOURCE. The philosophers we can choose from: Aristotle, Augustine, Baruch Spinoza, DAvid Hume, Emmanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Hegel, Jean-JAcques Rousseau, Jean-paul Sartre, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Plotinus, Rene Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Socrates, Sor…
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I was supposed to do my TOK essay weeks ago and its due tomorrow and i have yet to choose a title. The thing is i dont like any of them so i just cant start with any title i go blank as soon as i satart. can someone help pleaseee
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This is my Tok presentation topic, "Is racism culturally conditioned or instinctive?", as said in the title. I'm not sure how I should approach this and in what manner should I present it (poster, powerpoint, video, hand outs? etc) I was thinking at first to tackle the issue of: is there such thing as a race? and connecting that racism. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance.
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Guys, I need to write my TOK essay but I dont even know what areas of knowledge are. Please help. Thanks
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hey everyone, i'm going to do by TOK oral on the idea of misleading people. i need an example.. so far i'v only been able to find small things in the media that have mislead people. does anyone know of anything really big that mislead many many people? thanks so much! xx
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My teacher is preparing us for the oral presentation by having us practice on given example topics, ones that pertain to each AoK we go over per week. This week we are focusing on the Human Sciences (social sciences). He wants us to prepare some points for a class discussion. The human sciences are the academic disciplines (e.g. anthropology, economics, political science, sociology, psychology) that try to reduce the mystery of human nature by studying human behavior, human society and social relationships. I know that as much, but how would I delve into the following questions? I want to incorporate as an example of groups of people the tribes in Kenya and South Afric…
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Hey everyone, Well i just started TOK this year and the teacher asked me to write a reflection. Ok i do know what a reflection is but what am i going to reflect it on about? We haven't learnt anything yet...except for what sources are credible. Does anyone have an example of a reflection i could look at and see? Thank you.
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Hii friends I'll have a TOK presentation as you know in Grade 12. and so the issue that I choose it the book "The Secret" about the laws of attraction. actually from the presentaion trial I got like 16 out of 20 mark but I still want to improve it. so if you have Claims or Counterclaims for The Secret and The Law of Attraction please tell me about it and if posssible something related to the ways of knowing Thank You
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Hey i'm having a tok presentation but i really can't think of any Knowledge issues. My topic is How to we know that the Ogopogo exists? The ogogpogo is basically a creature that is said to live in the okanagan lake. Some people have said to see it and have taken pictures but aren't rally clear. But there is no real proof of it. Okay so, so far all i can think of is 1. How do we know the information relating to the ogopogo is real? and yeah..... got stuck about there. Ahh i'm freaking out this is our first formal presentation.
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so my teacher just told us yesterday that we have to start thinking about our presentations. mine's due in March. the thing is he told us we could do it on whatever we want but there are so many things out there that i don't know what to do it on. do you guys have any ideas of any topics that work well with "knowledge issues"
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I chosed this topic, but I didn't find any discussion in this forum about it.Did anyone choose this topic?How do you think about it? Indeed I'm not good at TOK, even now I have no idea about this topic(cry)...I think someone who chosed it can discuss here. In my opinion, I think we can start from history and science, history is the approach to know the past and science to know the future.But how to include any TOK elements in the essay?How about look at the way of knowing? Show your opinions, no matter if you chosed this topic. Let's discuss~! P.S. This is my first time to post here. I hope I didn't break any rules. If I did, plz tell me, I'm sorry. And my English is po…
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Hi all! I'm doing question 4 for my TOK essay - "Seek simplicity and distrust it. Is this always good advice for a knower?" I have some ideas about what to write, but if anyone has any ideas about examples I could write about I would really appreciate it!! Thanks in advance! (:
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Ok, so here's my topic for my TOK IA: How does media affect self-diagnosis of disease? **Im looking for another way to word it perhaps, and what areas do you guys think would be important in mentioning? I wanted to talk about autism and depression, but i dont think that would be enough....any ideas?
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hi im kind of not sure how you would approach this prescribed title...can you please give me some ideas to how i might be able to outline it? To understand something you need to rely on your own experience and culture. Does this mean that it is imposible to have objective knowledge? Thanks for any help you give.
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"the more we know or the more we think we know, the more difficult it is for us to see or recognize new knowledge." Does anyone know any philosopher who had this idea? I need to reference it for my TOK essay, but I do not know who to give credits to lol. Thanks.
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I really have a big problems at proving any thing ,, even with using what Ive learned from TOK I can easily convince people ,,,, although my TOK teacher is the only one who i cant convince ,, especially when he say to me: "give me an example of a true" even after using the 4 ways of knowledge to give an evidence of a true, he come out with something extremely vague that i cant prove, so whatever i say , its not truth. i think there is some thing wrong with his teaching,,, i can show you how does he do that, just state a truth.
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our teacher has barely given us any helpful stuff on t.o.k and i'm just not sure how to do my presentation! the research question goes like this... WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REASON AS A WAY OF KNOWING AND LOGIC IN IT'S DIFFERENT FORMS? IS IT POSSILE & WORTHWHILE TO TRANSLATE EVERY ARGUMENT INTO A FORMAL LOGICAL STRUCTURE? WHAT MIGHT BE LOST IN THE TRANSLATION? how do i go about doing a presentation on this? what should i do??
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Euthanasia
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Hey guys! I'll have my TOK presentation about Euthanasia on this December . I need you guys to help me. What's your comment about Euthanasia? Is Euthanasia a mercy killing or inhumanity? Should some country legalized euthanasia? thanks :]
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We just started TOK this semester, and I absolutely hate it to the core, anyways, we are supposed to do this presentation. It includes: a visual, supported with a speech. The visual should be complex enough to incorporate all questions with one visual object. Explain how it represents all of these questions. • What do we know we know? What do we think we know? What do we think we don’t know? What do we know we don’t know? What don’t we know we don’t know? I was thinking about doing a book or a model of the earth, but I'm confused on how I should answer...any help? I would greatly appreciate it.
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Hey guys! Need help! Need help on the topic Perception! What is perception? what knowledge do we aquire from sensory perception?
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I am doing prescribed title #1 for this year which is the science question and the quote from Henri Poincare. However, I do not have my notes on the section from the ToK book Theory of Knowledge by Richard van Lagemaat. I would really appreciate it if people could just give me an overview of the problems with science and implications of these problems as mentioned in the book or any other ToK book that you have encountered.
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Our emotions control us: Sometimes we can't help feeling the way we feel. The classic example would be someone loving someone they're not supposed to love. No matter how hard they try to control their emotions, they can't. In a lot of cases we can't tell ourselves what emotions to feel, especially strong emotions. When we're feeling depressed, we can't cheer up just by ourselves to. We control our emotions: We're taught how to feel about certain things. When we've done something wrong, we're told to feel remorseful, therefore we do(I don't know if I'm making much sense here....) When emotions are not very strong, we can change them easily. If we're upset about…
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November 2007 May 2008, Title 5
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I'm doing essay title 5 for may 2008 and I could need some help to get started if someone has any ideas. 5. “…we will always learn more about human life and human personality from novels than from scientific psychology.” (Noam Chomsky). To what extent would you agree?
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