Key for TOK Writing

A key feature in writing for TOK, both on exams and in the paper you will write your senior year, is the counterclaim. You must increasingly develop an awareness of and ability to deal with counterclaims to a thesis you are advancing. I was put in mind of this when I read the following wonderful statement by Steven Pinker, the Harvard linguist and author of The Stuff of Thought.

Not only is it a matter of fairness to acknowledge alternatives to the theory I am advancing; it's a matter of clarity and discovery. Much can be gained by contrasting a theory with its alternatives.... (The Stuff of Thought, p. 91)

Show me that you have read this by having it displayed in some big, bold, even permanent way in or on your TOK notebook.