The first step to self knowledge is rejection of the familiar

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The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.

The assertion that the first step to self knowledge is the rejection of the familiar may not hold water in general. In fact, familiar knowledge may lead to self knowledge for different reasons. Moreover, rejection of the familiar may not be the first step in order to gain self knowledge.

Firstly, familiar knowledge is the basic approach to develop the thinking ability that is required to gain self knowledge. Without familiar knowledge, it is very unlikely that one would grow as an individual to gain self knowledge. For instance, a child is required to go to school for the purpose of gaining the basic familiar knowledge. Eventually that child grows his skills in the school while facing the real life situations. if he does not meet friends of his age, he would not learn about human and communication. if he does not meet the teachers, he would not find a mentor to guide him in his journey. if he rejected the familiar thing that is school in the first place, he would not have gained so much knowledge to ultimately find his self knowledge.

Secondly, gaining self knowledge is a step by step process that happens after the continuation of several stages. rejection of familiar may happen after several stages are completed but not at the first place. For example, it was believed that the sun revolves around the earth for a long time. Scholars first accepted the idea that there is a rotational relation between the earth and the sun. Then they modified the rotator and center of the same idea as the earth is the one who rotates around the sun. if they had rejected the idea of rotation at he first place, they would have never found the actual rotational scenario.

Finally, knowledge is a versatile term and its different fields are interconnected. one cannot simply reject a form and hold the other. For reference,if a student wants to learn about astrology or psychology, he or she does not have to be necessarily admitted to an institution of that particular subject. In the era of internet, he can certainly enroll himself in an online based course of the same topic. but, for that, he must know the basics of internet which is a familiar knowledge.

In conclusion, it could be thought that rejecting the familiar is a better approach to find the self knowledge as it creates a clear path to the destination, it is not a good approach in case of gaining knowledge. The approach to gain knowledge must not be provincial and must be open while reaching whatever the goal.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, in general, in the first place

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2075.0 2235.4752809 93% => OK
No of words: 435.0 442.535393258 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77011494253 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56690854021 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67584034434 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 215.323595506 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.434482758621 0.4932671777 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 635.4 704.065955056 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.6974444467 60.3974514979 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 90.2173913043 118.986275619 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9130434783 23.4991977007 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.17391304348 5.21951772744 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 7.80617977528 128% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.433517879776 0.243740707755 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143800341912 0.0831039109588 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.161902472042 0.0758088955206 214% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.279281559578 0.150359130593 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.201212694009 0.0667264976115 302% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 14.1392134831 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.51 8.38706741573 90% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 100.480337079 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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