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.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
With increasing new breakthrough and discoveries in modern society, more and more people keep a skeptical attitude about various information surrounding us. Someone even claims that any piece of information referred to as a fact will be bound to be mistrusted, since it may well be proven false in the future. The more profound reason behind is that much of the information that people assume is factual actually turns out to be inaccurate. From my perspective of view, it is undeniably true that our improved perception for information would discover more faults in the past documentation. However, this doesn't mean that we should take a pessimistic attitude like the author states. Furthermore, we should seriously take information as true and let time and further knowledge to test them in the future.
To start off, if we take a glance at the past, many information that we supposed as true are toppled over by the later new perception. From this perspective, both reason and claim parts reveal us for the truth. Looking back to our history, similar examples abounds. For instance, before Galileo discloses the real relationship between gravity and the free-fall speed, majority of people in ancient Western world still trust Aristotle's idea that the heavier one of two irony balls thrown aloft could attain faster speed and reach the ground firstly. However, after the famous experiment launched by Galileo in Pisa leaning tower, humankind understand how flaw Aristotle's idea is and turn to consider how gravity determine the free-fall speed. In short, it is because of limited knowledge in previous time that people, even as great as Aristotle, could commit some seemingly naive error from contemporary viewpoint, which has been disproved by the later experiments. From this perspective, both of claim and reason hold tenable.
However, tenable as such claim and reason holds in the aforementioned situation, I have to contend that we shouldn't keep suspicious about all information around our life and work, because such distrusting attitude could incur many detrimental influence on us. Trusting for information available on hand builds up the foundation of our current knowledge scope, even the solid basis for our modern civilization. If we disbelieve any piece of information in either our work or study, we can't absorb any new knowledge any more, let alone making progress and surpass our precedent. Take Galileo's questioning for Aristotle as example. At the very beginning, he totally trusted Aristotle's information and had learnt a lot of important principles for gravity and quality about materials. It is only by such accumulation of knowledge and following with several experimented initialized by Aristotle that Galileo discovered the inconsistency between his idea and the reality. That is to say, such dependency on the past information of Aristotle help Galileo build up his correct knowledge for gravity. Without the resut for previous hardword or principles, nothing could be archieved in term of gravity principle.
Last but not least, considering the process how we discover the everlasting axiom and reach so-called truth, it is necessary to address that such "trust-mistrust" process actually drive us to reach perfection in our questing of knowledge. And each of those two steps couldn't omit in this process. On one hand, only trusting knowledges on hand could enable people to learn experience from others, as discussed for Galileo's learning from Aristotle. More importantly, such characteristics is determine by our primary learning process for the world. Because our world is so complex with many perspectives that even wise men, like Galileo and Aristotle, couldn't learn every aspects of their research works and grasp with the essential rules behind. This decides that we have to suffer a spiral jounery during the learning: staring with their accumulated knowledge , discovering flaws and further improving it. And our today's accomplishment could also serve for the stepstone for other in future. In this sense, all of trust and mistrust steps can't be skipped.
In summary, it is true that information considered to be true might be repudiated by our later perception of the world. However, as discussed before, it is evident that such failure for grasping the fact at the very beginning should not impede us with trust for our current understanding. Furthermore, the trust and mistrust process is actually determined by how we understand the world and dominated by our learning characteristics. Therefore, any of those necessary steps should not be displaced or belittled.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
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Line 3, column 48, Rule ID: MANY_FEW_UNCOUNTABLE[2]
Message: Use 'much' or 'little' with uncountable nouns.
Suggestion: much; little
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Message: Possible agreement error. The noun information seems to be uncountable; consider using: 'much information', 'a good deal of information'.
Suggestion: much information; a good deal of information
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Suggestion: shouldn't
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...rmation in either our work or study, we cant absorb any new knowledge any more, let ...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
... knowledge. And each of those two steps couldnt omit in this process. On one hand, only...
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Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to experience'
Suggestion: to experience
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Suggestion: determined
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Suggestion: ,
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Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
... also serve for the stepstone for other in future. In this sense, all of trust and mistru...
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
... sense, all of trust and mistrust steps cant be skipped. In summary, it is true...
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Suggestion:
...ust and mistrust steps cant be skipped. In summary, it is true that information ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, look, may, so, still, therefore, well, for instance, in short, in summary, it is true, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 29.0 14.8657303371 195% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 69.0 33.0505617978 209% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 103.0 58.6224719101 176% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 12.9106741573 201% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3896.0 2235.4752809 174% => OK
No of words: 732.0 442.535393258 165% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32240437158 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.20149002853 4.55969084622 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02782395989 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 355.0 215.323595506 165% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484972677596 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 1199.7 704.065955056 170% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 16.0 4.38483146067 365% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 20.2370786517 163% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.0242670052 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.060606061 118.986275619 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1818181818 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.9696969697 5.21951772744 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 13.0 7.80617977528 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.229446602598 0.243740707755 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0669449381523 0.0831039109588 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106731457849 0.0758088955206 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158554154585 0.150359130593 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.132020998068 0.0667264976115 198% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.1639044944 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 184.0 100.480337079 183% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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