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... 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. With language and arts, as more subjective views of the rose, there is a weaker argument of
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