As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and mysterious.
It is debatable whether as people obtain more information, people rather fail to comprehend better because things become more intricate. The statement is not cogent because of several reasons.
To begin with, it is evident that with more knowledge, people are able to apprehend more compared to the past. With more progress in research and more information garnered, the most natural outcome would be for people to know more. As a matter of fact, people do have better understanding of their surroundings, which enables them to even predict the future much more accurately than before. In medical field, as an example, after intensive examination of a patient, doctors are able to have accurate assessment of a patient, sometimes detecting possible danger and predicting possible outcome with their patients' bodies. Also, people only several centuries ago, lacked in ability to estimate weather. Nowadays, however, weather forecast is done daily and hourly with high precision. Because people in these days are acquiring more knowledge, such assessment and prediction are available, thus making situations less complex and mysterious.
Furthermore, modern state-of-the-art technology elucidates that as people garner more information, things become more pellucid. Current highly developed technology manifests people's capability to utilize their obtained knowledge, which comes from better understanding of their environment. Invention of fMRIs, electronic automobiles, moving cameras, and tablets effectively depicts people's level of comprehension of this world. Because development of science and technology enabled people have more knowledge of mechanisms behind intricate machines, innovative inventions that are conducive to amelioration of a society are constantly released. If concepts became more perplex and puzzling, active exploitation of such concepts would be impossible and societies would have failed to reach current level of development. More knowledge yielded higher comprehension, ultimately leading to rapid development of a society.
Admittedly, in some cases, it seems like things are becoming more mysterious. Neuroscience, for example, experienced only little achievement and more intricate concepts are popping up as scientists delve deeper into the subject. Theories of certain neurons and brain structure are abundant, but no single theory is considered as fact as of now. However, there was a progress even in this difficult field; effective medicines that regulate excessive chemical release in a brain are developed to cure some of the mental diseases like dementia and depression. Thus, the given argument that more knowledge engenders more complexity is not cogent.
All in all, as people obtain more knowledge, concepts of this world become more understandable; aforementioned reasons corroborate the argument. Truly, humans apprehend only a fraction of this world, but humans have come a long way which enabled betterment of a society.
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Essay evaluation report
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arguments: OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 438 350
No. of Characters: 2470 1500
No. of Different Words: 242 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.575 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.639 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.915 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 213 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 165 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 118 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 85 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.909 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.598 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.545 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.326 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.51 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.083 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 500, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...elease in a brain are developed to cure some of the mental diseases like dementia and depre...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'thus', 'for example', 'such as', 'as a matter of fact', 'in some cases', 'to begin with']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.251509054326 0.240241500013 105% => OK
Verbs: 0.156941649899 0.157235817809 100% => OK
Adjectives: 0.128772635815 0.0880659088768 146% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0744466800805 0.0497285424764 150% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0160965794769 0.0444667217837 36% => OK
Prepositions: 0.118712273642 0.12292977631 97% => OK
Participles: 0.0382293762575 0.0406280797675 94% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.04700334387 2.79330140395 109% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0261569416499 0.030933414821 85% => OK
Particles: 0.00201207243461 0.0016655270985 121% => OK
Determiners: 0.0583501006036 0.0997080785238 59% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00603621730382 0.0249443105267 24% => Some modal verbs wanted.
WH_determiners: 0.010060362173 0.0148568991511 68% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2982.0 2732.02544248 109% => OK
No of words: 437.0 452.878318584 96% => OK
Chars per words: 6.823798627 6.0361032391 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57214883401 4.58838876751 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.503432494279 0.366273622748 137% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.384439359268 0.280924506359 137% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.29290617849 0.200843997647 146% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.212814645309 0.132149295362 161% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04700334387 2.79330140395 109% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 219.290929204 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565217391304 0.48968727796 115% => OK
Word variations: 67.7845036537 55.4138127331 122% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6194690265 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.8636363636 23.380412469 85% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.563437749 59.4972553346 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.545454545 141.124799967 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8636363636 23.380412469 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.545454545455 0.674092028746 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 58.3075722904 51.4728631049 113% => OK
Elegance: 1.65040650407 1.64882698954 100% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.328851417751 0.391690518653 84% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0940086503207 0.123202303941 76% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0549319996944 0.077325440228 71% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.495761460158 0.547984918172 90% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.125509520358 0.149214159877 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128478547108 0.161403998019 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0954728237903 0.0892212321368 107% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.304597881502 0.385218514788 79% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0596872827008 0.0692045440612 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.220507526338 0.275328986314 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0315244676199 0.0653680567796 48% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.4325221239 105% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.30420353982 94% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88274336283 123% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 7.22455752212 125% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.70907079646 185% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 13.5995575221 132% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.