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.
Based on the reasoning that information that people accept undoubtedly as a fact turns out to be inaccurate in the future, one should not trust any factual information. Admittedly, there are a lot of example in history that supports this claim, in my opinion, the given claim is far from being true because of its generalization of the idea.
The first perspective to consider is the discoveries in the field of science. Scientific research is one of the most important factors contributing to the myriad of innovations coming into the market every day. What's the basis of any such research? It's a comprehensive study of a particular problem - a literature survey - which includes more or less accepting a number of factual information as true. The idea of simply rejecting any factual information would not work in such cases. It's paramount for scientists and researchers, to go through most of the recent studies pertaining to the problem they are trying to solve, before even considering starting a research project.
Secondly, accepting this factual information helps us to perform new experiments to solve more problems. It is only when we take these facts as completely true that we will be able to use those ideas elsewhere, which in turn helps us to corroborate the reliability of the commonly accepted idea. If all of us disregard any factual information based on the reason that it may be proven false in the future, then it's never going to happen. For instance, Einstein accepted the laws of Newtonian mechanics and utilized them in his other experiments to find out that these laws do not hold at microscopic levels, for particles such as protons, electrons, etc. This gave us the entirely new area of physics that we know as quantum mechanics today.
Coming to the other side of the issue, one may argue that history is replete with examples of facts that were proven false after some time. For example, the idea that the earth is flat, or the earth is the center of the universe. Each of these ideas was widely accepted at one point in time. However, both of these ideas were proven false due to space exploration by the galileo and his supporters. Now, this may seem a very strong point but it overlooks the amount of information known to humans at present times. The given claim might hold true for the cases when information was limited. But it is not the case now. The amount of information we have today is beyond comparison to what we knew back then. Modern days facts are established by going through a lot of scrutinies by scientists and scholars. It's not as easy to prove modern facts as false as it was before.
In conclusion, it's unreasonable to reject any piece of information that is a fact. This generalization is faulty in that it overlooks some of the major factors that need to consider before making any such decision: the high reliability of modern facts, the importance of factual information in other relevant experiments that may help us to validate it in under various circumstances, and the ability of these facts to give a headstart to much scientific research. It's better to accept facts that are the basis for a field of study rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 212, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: What's
...tions coming into the market every day. Whats the basis of any such research? Its a c...
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Line 3, column 250, Rule ID: IT_IS[17]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: It's; It is
.... Whats the basis of any such research? Its a comprehensive study of a particular p...
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Line 5, column 412, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...may be proven false in the future, then its never going to happen. For instance, Ei...
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Line 7, column 807, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: It's; It is
... scrutinies by scientists and scholars. Its not as easy to prove modern facts as fa...
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Line 9, column 135, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...lization is faulty in that it overlooks some of the major factors that need to consider bef...
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Line 9, column 437, Rule ID: TO_TOO[2]
Message: Did you mean 'too'?
Suggestion: too
...lity of these facts to give a headstart to much scientific research. Its better to...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, then, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion, more or less
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 33.0505617978 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 88.0 58.6224719101 150% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2666.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 554.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81227436823 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85151570047 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78149211954 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 263.0 215.323595506 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.474729241877 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 845.1 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.9850364395 60.3974514979 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.538461538 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3076923077 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.46153846154 5.21951772744 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.283080397854 0.243740707755 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0757828462548 0.0831039109588 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0929875201771 0.0758088955206 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176684973664 0.150359130593 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.092707134331 0.0667264976115 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.1392134831 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.