ToK Essay Term 2

ToK Essay Term 2

To what extent is certainty attainable in different areas of knowledge?

Art & Natural Science

ART

• To what extent is it possible to create universal criteria to determine whether something can be categorized as art or not? Reason? Evidence?

• To what extent is it possible to create universal criteria to determine what makes an art work beautiful or not? Reason? Evidence?

NATURAL SCIENCE

• To what extent can we gain accurate & certain conclusion considering that natural science uses induction (specific to general - use data from sample to be generalized to the population)? remember the example "I saw 3 crows and they're black, therefore I conclude that all crows are black".

• To what extent can we gain accurate conclusion considering that there are numerous explanations for a given set of data? Remember the example about drinking coke, exercise, and health.

Introduction

Why is this question worth investigating?

Why is it important?

Help readers understand what art and natural science are

Conclusion

After all the analysis, in summary, what's the answer?

REMEMBER TO GIVE REASON & EVIDENCE

Minimum 1000 words

Maximum 1500 Words