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Essay tips 2: Leading by example

In this short video I discuss the central role of examples in the ToK essay. It is often supposed that the best way to go about the essay process is from abstract to concrete: using abstract prior definitions of key words in the PT, constructing abstract arguments, and then finally hoping that one can find some examples to fit them. There are many reasons why this is the wrong way round - not least that good ToK...

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