Yugalarex Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Hello everybody,After having done endless revision on Tim O'Brien's: The things they carried, I decided to base my presentation on that because I thought there was a lot that could be explored. I came to the title 'can you tell the truth through lies'. Am I allowed to use the book as a real life situation? If not, does anyone have any ideas for a rls? ^~^ Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackcurrant Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Farley Mowat (Canadian writer) apparently did it. He said "I never let the facts get in the way of truth." Is that lying? Some say "yes". Some say "no". I think something similar was said by either Toni Morrison or (more likely) Maya Angelou... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yugalarex Posted May 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Farley Mowat (Canadian writer) apparently did it. He said "I never let the facts get in the way of truth." Is that lying? Some say "yes". Some say "no". I think something similar was said by either Toni Morrison or (more likely) Maya Angelou...Thanks a million! Can I use this as a real life situation though? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackcurrant Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Yes, why not. There are two kinds of real life situation,actually, which your TOK expects -- personal (based squarely on your own experiences and thinking) and non-personal (current event, history, scientific). Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackcurrant Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 I think, in fact, your TOK question can be based on the relationship between facts and truth. Or to what extent truth depends on facts. Or ... are there occasions where facts get in the way of truth...? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhelof Posted June 15, 2015 Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 (edited) Yes, you can use a book. "As long as it's a real life situation" my teacher said. I used a movie. But about your question... since we are talking ToK shouldn't the first hesitation be "Is there even a thing like truth?", "How do we decide what is true?", etc. I hope you get my point. Then, taking it further, if we say something doesn't it become "truth" in a way? Or else, what is a fact? What is common knowledge? What is knowledge and what is information? How do we know anything? What is intuition in all that? And I could go on forever. Overall, I personally wouldn't do your title as my presentation... unless you really specify what is truth and that are lies, but since I do not believe in ultimate truth (what are lies then?) I can't help you with that. Edited June 15, 2015 by mhelof Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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