In his statement, the author claims that people should mistrust any piece of information which is referred to as a fact, since it would most likely turn out to be false in the future. I feel that the reason given behind this statement is a bit far-fetched and extreme to the point that it seems overly generalized. Facts, on the other hand serve a dual purpose of arousing curiosity and also are catalysts of their own fallacy.
The importance of facts could be well understood if we scrutinize how science, discoveries and inventions in particular, works. One of the common approach people take while deriving formulas and theories is that to state what a scientist feels to be true as a fact, and then performing various tests and experiments to test for the validity of that theory. After rigorous experiments and after standing the tests of scrutiny and meticulous inspection does a fact qualify as a empirical theory, corroborated by various results that bolster it's existence. Had we considered facts to be trivial and lacking any true significance, and would have discarded and disrespected its existence, we would not have been so scientifically sound as we are today. For example the fact that light is a wave was well accepted and corroborated by tests , but with the advent of Einsteinian physics,the theory particle nature of light gained more traction and is hence universally accepted now.
Secondly, many facts have a tendency to change with the passage of time. Mutability is intrinsic to them, but also the quality of being immensely valuable to the contemporaries. For example, let us take the example of a well known fact that a year has 4 major climates. We all know that is fact is temporary and is subjected to changes in the future. But the fact that this fact would no longer be valid in the future doesn't undermine it's authenticity in the current scenario. Hence we must acknowledge the mutable nature of certain facts and accept them accordingly.
On the other hand, this does not mean that we should accept any fact presented to us and turn a blind eye towards it's drawbacks, loopholes, authenticity or veracity. We must always inculcate an attitude for verifying the foundations of a fact exhaustively and only after painstakingly weighing every variable that could mark it's significance that we must value a fact as one. For example, media canards which generally are claimed to be true turns out to be apocryphal most of the times as they are most likely disseminated for increasing the viewership of a media channel.
Hence, we can conclude that not only discarding every fact as to-be-inaccurate in the future is unfruitful, but it also hampers the curiosity and eagerness to explore the unknown which has kept the mankind thriving for so long. But only after careful inspection should we consider a statement as a fact.
- A nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college rather than allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer. 66
- Claim: An action is morally correct if the amount of good that results from the action is greater than the amount of bad that results from the action. Reason: When assessing the morality of an action, the results of the action are more important than the 79
- Claim: Any piece of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted, since it may well be proven false in the future.Reason: Much of the information that people assume is factual actually turns out to be inaccurate. 83
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, hence, if, second, secondly, so, then, well, while, as to, for example, i feel, in fact, in particular, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 14.8657303371 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 58.6224719101 90% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2387.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 483.0 442.535393258 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94202898551 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68799114503 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9171585575 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 248.0 215.323595506 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513457556936 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 755.1 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.0315447187 60.3974514979 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.631578947 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4210526316 23.4991977007 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.63157894737 5.21951772744 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.266947087999 0.243740707755 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0863308351251 0.0831039109588 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0982472935548 0.0758088955206 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162295519714 0.150359130593 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0686197573612 0.0667264976115 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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