Personally in my own presentation, what i discovered when doing research is that some TOK questions just simply do not have a concrete right or wrong answer. A lot of TOK comes from personal experience and opinion while examing the influence of culture and other opinions on the subject matter. For example, Erin and i had to define the difference between feeling and emotions and when looking through doctors answers on the same matter there was one account from a doctor who answered "*laughs* i have no idea". This account was listed between many differed and conflicting answers which offered a great vareity of opinions on the matter. We managed to eke out a general definition of the difference but this was a very basic form of the answer.
A popular presentation factor was to ask the audience their opinion on the answer of the question. I believe it was popular and effective because it highlighted how many different answers there are to just one question, how there can be complex answers and simple answers, how people can have radically different opinions on the same view and that mostly each question was subject to logic as well as personal opinion.
I think that in TOK as long as a person is able to justify their answer then we cannot dismiss their opinion even if it differs from the answer we had reached. Ethics, emotion, reason, etc are not concepts which have exact duplicate formulas or facts involved in them. Thus, careful research to reach a balanced answer is the best way to go when dealing with a TOK issue.
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