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ToK - Perception

Reason Does religious truth lie beyond human understanding?. Maths Are mathematical truths timeless and universal?. Language Does language hide the truth more than it reveals it?. ToK - Perception. Ethics Is truth more important than happiness?. Natural Sciences

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ToK - Perception

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  1. Reason Does religious truth lie beyond human understanding? Maths Are mathematical truths timeless and universal? Language Does language hide the truth more than it reveals it? ToK - Perception Ethics Is truth more important than happiness? Natural Sciences Is the scientific method the best way of trying to find truth? Truth Arts What relation, if any, is there between beauty and truth? Human Sciences Do humans have any privileged access to the truth? History Does the history of ideas suggest that we are getting closer to the truth?

  2. ToK - Truth • Points for discussion in classes • We naturally seem to seek what is true? Why is that? How is it manifest? • Each of the described theories of truth have problems – can you identify some of them? • Does it make sense to say that some works of art are truer than others • Discuss the two extreme approaches to truth - dogmatism and relativism. • What do we mean by a “half-truth”? Can you think of examples? • The search for the truth can result in unexpected and even unpredictable or dangerous results – does this justify limiting basic research and technological development for example. • Wisdom is said to lie beyond knowledge – what would you say are the characteristics of a wise person?

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