In most professions and academic fields , imagination is more important than knowledge
Can imagination exist without knowledge? Can imagination be expressed intelligibly without knowledge? Is imagination of any use without being expressed? It is of no use without being expressed, because no one except the one who imagines will be aware of the imagining, and that will perish with the death of the person.
Knowledge arises from our perception of the world around us by means of our sense organs. We experience the world as pleasing or painful, delightful or repulsive, and the desire for the pleasing and fear of the painful give rise to the imagination of pleasure and pain. Funnily enough, we enjoy both in the same way. We love to watch both comedies and horror films. We get pleasure from wallowing in a Jacuzzi or swimming the freezing English Channel from Dover to Calais, from flying over Mount Everest or climbing it Knowledge of pain and pleasure fuels our imagination.
If our imaginings were not rooted in experience, they would be unintelligible to everyone - probably including the imaginer himself.
In fact, if we think of the behavior of a newborn infant, we realize that we are born with a certain basic, instinctual knowledge of how to communicate our pleasure or distress by smiling or crying. Imagination arrives on our mental scene later, when we learn of the pleasure or pain we get from contact with external objects. We learn to Imagine the pleasure our presence gives to others around us by observing the reactions of those persons to our actions.
It is knowledge of things around us that enables us to imagine the permutations and combinations of those things, and to experiment with them.
As in our ordinary lives, so in specialized fields - such as academics, medicine, or law -- we are led to imagination by knowledge. A professor can find new ways of effectively putting an arcane point across to his students only if he thoroughly knows the subject and the means that have been tried in the past without success. To do something differently, with imagination, one must know the conventional means and ways of doing that thing.
Were the laws of motion pure imagination? Obviously not, for they grew out of the observation of everyday events. Was the idea of relativity entirely imagination? No, that too was based on an extension of the knowledge that although light travels at tremendous speed, it nevertheless travels at a finite speed. And we can imagine traveling at an equal or even at greater speed.
A lawyer may hit upon a new and irrefutable interpretation of a piece of old legislation to prove his client innocent An architect in search of a new design may dream of one when sleep releases his intellect from mental bie and tets hin fantasize in dream - but fantasies cannot be divorced from his experience.
In the physical world, the everyday world, your intellect, and therefore our imagination, a firmly rooted in experience as a centuries old harvan tree is rooted to the ground, the in the contemplation of the un-experienced the original cause, the reason 1 pure experiences and imaginings that drive us inexorabiy to act in this world, that pul magination, devoid of roots in experience has its scope But again, such imaginings wi need to be projected as experience so that others can begin Imagining the State, t Nirvana, to which such free-floating imagination leads the imaginer.
It seems that in most professions, and in academics, knowledge is more important than imagination, because it precedes imagination. But at the frontier where knowledge of the physical world as gathered by our senses and manipulated into interpretable patterns by our intellect can no longer help, we have to rely on our imagination, and conjure up experiences that are not explicable to listeners unless they themselves strive to conjure up those experiences in their own imagination. Here, we enter into the realm of meditation and other such practices that are not measurable in familiar material terms.
Therefore, most of the time, experience is more important than imagination as a source of knowledge. In fact, Imagination is a tool with which to shape knowledge into new forms so that it can be used in innovative ways.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, nevertheless, so, therefore, in fact, such as, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 31.0 14.8657303371 209% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 71.0 33.0505617978 215% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 119.0 58.6224719101 203% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 34.0 12.9106741573 263% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3505.0 2235.4752809 157% => OK
No of words: 699.0 442.535393258 158% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01430615165 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.14184870769 4.55969084622 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00223809646 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 338.0 215.323595506 157% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483547925608 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 1121.4 704.065955056 159% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 6.24550561798 256% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 9.0 1.77640449438 507% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 111.113144122 60.3974514979 184% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.862068966 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1034482759 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.62068965517 5.21951772744 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 11.0 4.97078651685 221% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.204114125328 0.243740707755 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0701509976307 0.0831039109588 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0829680636203 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0935834416468 0.150359130593 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0728368249699 0.0667264976115 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 155.0 100.480337079 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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