As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and mysterious
Some college students claim that after learning knowledge in college, they find them more confused to the knowledge they previously took for granted. However, they finds what they learned in high schools becamre more comprehsible as they grew to the senior. In contrast, I believe that acquisition of knowledge will help people to comprehend the world easily.
Take math courses of high school for example. When caclulating the area of a circle, teachers are used to directly saying the formula without any explanation, or demonstrating the concept of slicing a circle into small pieces and adding all of the areas of tiny rectangles. Students may call into a question why the summation of tiny pieces of rectangles can correctly approximate to the area of a circle. In fact, it is the concept of calculus, a rudimentary course in colleges. Only acuqiring the whole system calculus students will think what their teachers said about the area of a circle is reasonable and has mathematical reasoning instead of a formula without detailed explanation. Aparts from circular areas, a myriad of phenomenons can be accurately modeled by calculus. As the result, the more advanced knowledge of mathematics students acquire, the more phenomenons can be specifically described and understood.
Some students may argue that the more knowledge they learn, the less comprehensible they are. For example, they learn that humans are rational, which means they will choose to maximize their own benefits, in economic textbooks. However, under the recession of economy, tons of unreasonable investors dumps their securities, such as shares of stocks and bonds, to the public market at fairly low price smashing the price mechanism of markets. The phenomenon is at odds with the principles of economy and investors won't increase but seriously damage their benefits. Therefore, they found that knowledge they acquire from textbooks is inconsistent with the real world conditions and things are more confusing.
However, the reason why they have the misconception of acquisition of knowledge is that textbooks usually make a lot of assumptions simplifying the conditions and restrictions to let students directly understand the knowledge without considerations of complex factors. And the world is definitely complicated with or without our knowledge about the world. Many events are interdependent with each other and it may not exist a original event that started to affect other events. A reasoning process that usually starts from a reason and ends with a result may not applied to understand the operations of the world.
To conclude, knowledge is the accumulation of how predecessors understood the world, which is sometimes limited under certain restrictions and relys on predetermined assumptions. Acqusition of knowledge will help people understand the world in the way of predecessors and the world will be more comprehensible. As for something confusing is the responsibility of comtemporary to figure out the explanations.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 165, Rule ID: NON3PRS_VERB[2]
Message: The pronoun 'they' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'find'
Suggestion: find
...viously took for granted. However, they finds what they learned in high schools becam...
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Line 3, column 238, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...g a circle into small pieces and adding all of the areas of tiny rectangles. Students may ...
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Line 7, column 309, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... And the world is definitely complicated with or without our knowledge about the ...
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Line 7, column 426, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...nt with each other and it may not exist a original event that started to affect o...
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Line 9, column 312, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... the world will be more comprehensible. As for something confusing is the responsi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, so, therefore, as for, for example, in contrast, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 71.0 58.6224719101 121% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2557.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 471.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42887473461 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65859790218 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1117023729 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51804670913 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 787.5 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.9214488848 60.3974514979 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.227272727 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4090909091 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.21951772744 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => 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: 0.186303087197 0.243740707755 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0569154054606 0.0831039109588 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0822005614867 0.0758088955206 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105221381334 0.150359130593 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0387883369275 0.0667264976115 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 131.0 100.480337079 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: 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.