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.
Science is always creating new theories and explanations on how the world works. These theories are not immutable and have been, through the course of time, improved and corrected and will continue to do so. These theories are refined in order to depict the world in the best way possible, thus a new finding that goes against a theory must be incorporated, somehow, in the theory. This is how science works, and as Karl Popper proposed, every single theory must be falsifiable in order to be a theory. Therefore, to claim a fact as completely true is incorrect, because the fact is true in the chunk of space and time we live in. For that reason, I strongly disagree with the claim above, for the following 3 reasons.
Firstly, the reasoning in this excerpt is quite truthful. In the course of time, as stated above, theories have been deemed inaccurate and new ones have been put in their place. However, the claim is a rather extreme one, and we must agree that from one theory to the subsequent one, seldom does the new one completely go against the former. Usually, the new one is based on the former and corrects a few points that may not hold true in the new findings. Take for example Newtonian physics that was replaced by the theory of relativity. Well, Newtonian theories didn’t include every single case and were inaccurate in some areas, but if it didn’t exist, or if people like Einstein didn’t even believe in them, they would have to begin their theories from scratch, and perhaps couldn’t even develop useful new findings in his lifetime. Science is, like a skyscraper, built by stories, each one built on top of the other, doing some maintenance when it is needed.
Additionally, if we are so skeptic as to ignore everything science tells us, then what is the purpose of science? Discoveries should improve our lives and explain to us how the inner mechanisms of reality work. If we didn’t believe in new discoveries, our society would become stagnant. Take the example of the computer. I would not be writing this text were not for some brilliant guy named Turing discovered how a computer could be built and some guy named Bill Gates put this theory in practice and built the personal computer. It was because Gates believed in Turing’s discoveries that we now have this piece of machine. If he deemed Turing’s discoveries as useless, I would still be writing this on paper. Or maybe even in a rock, if skepticism is taken to such an extreme.
Lastly, for our lives to run smoothly we must believe in something. We can deny science if we want to do so. But we cannot deny the fact that, for example, we exist, or the world around us exists because if we do so then how can we run our lives? If the world doesn’t exist then what is the purpose of getting up in the morning? Better to stay at home the whole day. Actually, why would I even stay in bed if I don’t exist? This can lead to seriously dark thoughts and affect one’s mind in such a way that they end up depressed and without meaning in life. We must, at least, take some facts as certain in order to live a normal life.
In conclusion, one might say that science is mutable, but if he doesn’t believe in science at any given moment, then he will not believe in progress and will end up rendering his life useless. We must believe in something in order to live, even if it is as small as the existence of reality, no skeptic can deny its existence and run a normal life at the same time, rendering this position unsustainable.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, so, still, then, therefore, thus, well, as to, at least, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.9520958084 178% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 11.1786427146 215% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 60.0 28.8173652695 208% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 78.0 55.5748502994 140% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2932.0 2260.96107784 130% => OK
No of words: 636.0 441.139720559 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.61006289308 5.12650576532 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.02185627292 4.56307096286 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61998568453 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 286.0 204.123752495 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.449685534591 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 925.2 705.55239521 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 4.96107784431 282% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 9.0 1.67365269461 538% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 19.7664670659 157% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.5332347129 57.8364921388 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.5806451613 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5161290323 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.51612903226 5.70786347227 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0794564705831 0.218282227539 36% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0219674757088 0.0743258471296 30% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.032726276926 0.0701772020484 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0488736383406 0.128457276422 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0415432337832 0.0628817314937 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 14.3799401198 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.46 12.5979740519 75% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.63 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 98.500998004 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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