As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and mysterious.
This argument states that things are getting more arcane and convoluted as humankind accumulates more knowledge. However, I argue that things are only getting clearer when we acquire more knowledge.
The reason why we acquire knowledge is to understand how this world works. With experience, it can point out a causal relationship of a thing. Before the Enlightenment, people always attributed everything to God because of a lack of knowledge. God is the source of everything at that time. With expertise accumulating over time, we can see through the appearance of a thing and find out how it works. For example,
as Newton finds out the reason why apples always fall to the ground, we have a broader sense about the force of gravity makes us stand on the surface of the Earth instead of explaining this with a cause we never can put a test on it. As a result, knowledge makes things more comprehensible.
However, this argument says we make thing more complicated and mysterious when we find out a causal relationship of a situation. With more details of a casual relationship, it is sure that things are getting more complicated. As an individual, things seem to be more mysterious. For a person who knows nothing about how a computer works, all tech-stuffs looks like magic to him. At the time that TV just invented, people might think that there were a bunch of actors hidden in that little box to perform a show.
Nevertheless, from a general view of all humankind, it does not conclude that things are getting more mysterious than before, because we acquire more knowledge about everything as a whole. For example, once we know that laws of demand and supply determine market prices, we don’t say that we are getting more unsure about how the cost of a stock will rise or fall. We get a necessary background about how a thing works, and we have more confidence to find out factors related to demand and supply such as numbers of suppliers, numbers of consumers. As more studies published, we should have a clearer insight toward a complete understanding of how a thing works and have the ability to make life better.
To sum up, it is not appropriate to state that things become more complex and mysterious when we acquire more knowledge. In reality, things are getting more comprehensible than before though in a more complex way that an individual can understand.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 414, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... and find out how it works. For example, as Newton finds out the reason why apple...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, look, nevertheless, so, for example, such as, as a result, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1983.0 2235.4752809 89% => OK
No of words: 410.0 442.535393258 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.83658536585 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49982852243 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8372689653 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 215.323595506 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.480487804878 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 623.7 704.065955056 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.966533137 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.15 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.3 5.21951772744 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.501595770511 0.243740707755 206% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.189859883954 0.0831039109588 228% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.152762716466 0.0758088955206 202% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.312629963339 0.150359130593 208% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.156016224509 0.0667264976115 234% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.1392134831 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.1639044944 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.48 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 100.480337079 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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