As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and more mysterious.
The speaker claims that things become increasingly incomprehensible with the accumulation of knowledge. From my point of view, although things of our daily lives are ostensibly more sophisticated, one cannot assert that they are more mysterious.
I concede that the database of human’s knowledge is becoming larger, hence it confuses a lot of ordinary people. The achievement of civilization today is base on the continuously effort of elites in previous generation, therefore, it is inescapably the knowledge we need to learn today is more dense and broad compared to the previous generation. To be specific, thousands years ago, the things that our ancestors need to learn are restricted to rudimentary skill, such as hunting skills or the knowhow of that how to make stone tools. Instead, in the modern society, it is necessary for people not only learning those practical skills, namely, driving, cooking, repairing, and so on, but also acquiring theoretical knowledge such as mathematics and science. Hence, it makes an illusion for people to reckon that today’s world is more complex and mysterious.
However, natural world is actually more understandable thanks to the knowledgable heritage from our forebears. On one hand, by understanding the truth behind the natural phenomena, we humans now have the ability to predict the natural events and benefit ourselves in many ways. In the ancient time, people are suffering from the flux of the weather, which cause flooding and aridity. In the that time, people merely could attribute these disastrous events to the supernatural cause. However, in virtue of the development of meteorology, we humans can build the scientific model to predict the weather pattern, and thus avoid baleful events from happening.
On the other hands, the technology that comes along with the understanding of the nature, we can even manipulate it. To illustrate, the flooding water, which is the source of disaster, now can be control to drive the hydropower plants. Furthermore, the light is once considered as a boon that natural god gives to us; now from the knowledge we accumulate through generations, we know they are the oscillation of electronic-magnetic field and thus can generate it by ourselves and thus achieve the telecommunication of cellphones, satellites, and radios. The things I mentioned above epitomize the thought that our world is actually more lucid and controllable.
To sum up, at the first glance, because of the great amount of knowledge we have today, many people will claim that the world is too complex to understand. Nevertheless, in many aspects of the modern life, we human can understand, predict, and manipulate the natural, it is definitely the epitomization of understanding of natural world.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, nevertheless, so, therefore, thus, such as, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2342.0 2235.4752809 105% => OK
No of words: 440.0 442.535393258 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32272727273 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57997565096 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1496949872 2.79657885939 113% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538636363636 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 738.0 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 14.0 4.38483146067 319% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.4312525149 60.3974514979 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.111111111 118.986275619 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4444444444 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.38888888889 5.21951772744 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.258020212293 0.243740707755 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0784505717927 0.0831039109588 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0792984144912 0.0758088955206 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149209112064 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0759042203012 0.0667264976115 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.8420337079 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.17 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 11.8971910112 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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