ToK Essays 1 – 6 November 2023 Guidance Notes

Detailed Guidance Notes for all ToK Essay Titles 1-6 November 2023.

The notes are in PDF format, and are available for download as soon as payment is made.

The notes include:

• Fully developed knowledge arguments

• include suggestions on the structure of your essay

• include suggestions for possible claims & counterclaims that you could use.

• 8 – 10,000 words per essay. 50-60,000 words in total

• Suggestions for real world examples, fully referenced.

• Integration of evaluation & implication points.

• Integration of key ToK concepts

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The November 2023 ToK Essay Titles are:

1. Facts: alone are they enough to prove a claim? Discuss with reference to any two areas of knowledge.

2. If “the mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s and the poet’s, must be beautiful”
(G.H. Hardy), how might this change the production of knowledge? Discuss with reference to
mathematics and the arts.

3. In the acquisition of knowledge, is following experts unquestioningly just as dangerous as completely ignoring
them? Discuss with reference to the human sciences and one other area
of knowledge.

4. Knowledge is so often shaped by the values of those who produce it. Is that problematic ?
Discuss with reference to any two areas of knowledge.

5. “the world isn’t just the way it is, it is how we understand it—and in
understanding something, we bring something to it”.  Is this always the case ?(adapted from Life of Pi by Yann Martel)?
Discuss with reference to history and the natural sciences.

6. How do we select what is significant for the acquisition when faced with vast amounts of information ?
of knowledge? Discuss with reference to the natural sciences and one other area of knowledge.