Given the different authorities heard at the debate, what source of knowledge and perspective tells the truth best about the nature of the rose? As a budding ToK student, what has convinced you the most? Why? What hasnt? Why not?
Given the different authorities heard at the debate, what source of knowledge and perspective “tells the truth” best about the ‘nature’ of the rose? As a budding ToK student, what has convinced you the most? Why? What hasn’t? Why not?
The ‘nature’ of a rose is simply billions of atoms assembling together in a certain way to form what we call a rose.
This chemistry perspective is quite convincing out of all the other arguments as a rose is simply that and regardless of what we think or feel about it, it is still a collection of atoms which form this ‘rose’. The rose cannot change into any another object and although there are different breeds of roses a rose will still remain as hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen put together in rearranged order.