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Weasel words in ToK - learning opportunities

There are some words in ToK that give students no end of trouble. I call these weasel words. Students have trouble with them for a variety of reasons, but most common is that they simply assume that the word has a standard stable definition, when, in fact, the word is contested. A few years ago I started compiling a list of these, encouraged by participants at workshops. Here is the current list which will be added...

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