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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and mysterious.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
I still remember when I first engage mathematics in primary school, I find it such an easy discipline, and those simple numerical applications are more like recitals without analysis. However, as I begin to study geometry, algebra, and function in high school, mathematics has become my weakest discipline and I feel extremely frustrated in this field when getting just average grades. After going to university, though I do not major in math, this basic discipline that every fresh student has to learn for one year become even more abstract, and what I hope is just to pass the exam. This process, I believe, has been experienced also by a host of people, and numerous other instances of the same sort might be multiplied indefinitely. This true experience supports the speaker’s assertion that things become more complex and mysterious with the acquisition of more knowledge. Nevertheless, this situation is natural and the reason for it is just its comprehensiveness that is negated by the speaker. With increased depth of knowledge, only cognize it from all aspects can we grasp the quintessence and apply it in practice.
Still take the mathematics as the example, in the past, what we learn actually can be reduced to an exceptional situation, which is endowed with specific condition like all numbers are real. However, if we want to utilize the maxims in a broader scope, we have to extract this condition and generalize a regular from much more complicated and changing situations. So the complex number “i” is brought about which is absolutely out of the framework real number. But this complicated system give numbers more power to address practical problems like biology and aerospace obtaining great progress from it. Therefore, when we marvel and even jibe at why mathematician want to prove one plus one equals two, which is too simple and apparent even for a baby, we should be cautious that we may just see the question from a narrow angle, but to put it into wider scope, taking it from multiplied views is needed.
Another typical example is economics, which seems easy initially. Sometimes we feel enthusiastic when we could use some classical principles to interpret several phenomena, but in most cases we are confused for its invalidity. This, in fact, is resulted from its potential assumptions. When economists propose a principle, they tend to assume people are all rational, or only two products existed in the world, or other similar conditions. This is evidently against our instinct and the real world. You may suspect why they put forward such “wrong” principles that is not matched with us. But this characteristic is just analogy to other fields that we have to progress from the simplest situation, and step forward little by little. With the accumulation of knowledge and experience, we can comprehensively see the actual phenomenon and modify the principles to take the complexity into consideration, and thus address those mysterious things.
In sum, the ultimate purpose of learning knowledge is a process to explore the unknown fields. Hence this uncertainty determines its intricacies. But the more convoluted the knowledge, the more comprehensive our knowledge. We cannot segregate them into antithesis, but regard them as a mixed process that drives each other. It is this process that boosts the human history.
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