As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and mysterious.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
According to the statement above, when we have a more extensive knowledge, things become more “mysterious and complex”. In what follows, I will reject this idea: I will argue that while things become more complex they are not more mysterious.
First of all, it is necessary to make the statement more clear. Indeed, at first glance things do not become more complex and mysterious in accordance with our knowledge: there is a deep rift between metaphysics/ontology, which are related to the existence of things, and epistemology, which is about how can we know the entities in the world. Therefore, the statement above should be construed as expressing the idea that things become more mysterious and complex as they seem to be to us.
Now, a first reasoning against the author’s idea is that there is a contradiction. How is it possible that we improve our knowledge and things seem mysterious? If our knowledge is more extensive, necessarily things have to be less mysterious – otherwise, our knowledge would not have improved.
Of course, it is unquestionable that the world can appear more complex to us when we own more theories about it. The problem indeed is how we can give a uniform and consistent picture about a certain subject with a great number of theories, which are often developed by exploiting contrasting method. For example, how can we create a uniform picture of human behaviour when, according to a great number of economic theories, people are free to make their own decision and, according to physics, human beings are similar to any other object in the space-time, which is not characterised by freedom?
However, contrary to what the author argues, it is also true that in certain cases a uniform picture can be reached. In philosophy of language, for example, after knowing that the traditional theory is false, philosophers have offered a compelling rival view. The situation is simpler because we know what path we have to follow (the new proposal) and what road we do not (the traditional theory).
In conclusion, the author suggests an idea which is plausible at first glance. However, there are a number of objections. First, there is not a causal relationship between our knowledge and the world. Second, since our knowledge is more extended, things are less mysterious. Third, it is true that our understanding of the world can become more complex, but in certain case, we can witness a simplification.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, third, while, for example, in conclusion, of course, first of all, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 58.6224719101 78% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2058.0 2235.4752809 92% => OK
No of words: 407.0 442.535393258 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05651105651 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49157444576 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0519570742 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 215.323595506 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.459459459459 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 642.6 704.065955056 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.7188678513 60.3974514979 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.315789474 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4210526316 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.89473684211 5.21951772744 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.279375815882 0.243740707755 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0950708218688 0.0831039109588 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0769211302388 0.0758088955206 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163712370423 0.150359130593 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0916575571263 0.0667264976115 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.98 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 100.480337079 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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