issue115 觉得好难写，不如教育，历史和环境容易下手，大家帮我看看吧，谢谢

mack1983UID: 183345

Is it only through the use of logic and of precise, careful measurement can we indicate how far we have progressed or regressed? I agree that logic and measurement do provide us many instrumentalities to make criteria of our advancement. Nevertheless, we should not deny that there are still many aspects that logic and measurement could provide us little, if any, guidance.

First, let's consider individuals. Many of our advancement or retreat could be gain by using the method of logic and measurement. In career, our advancement could be regarded as the pay raise and promotion, while demotion and even dismissal could be a signal of regress. In fact, the measurement gives us the data of how much our pay raises or how many steps we have ascended the social ladder, and the logic could help us deduce from these data whether we are making any progress or not. In everyday life, how could we measure the condition of our health? One year ago, I could only run no more than 3000 meters, yet now I could cover the length as much as 20 kilometers. That might serves as an evidence of improvement of body condition. We measure length with scientific tool, and get the conclusion by comparing the data, which is a process of logic.

Second, let's consider society. What has made us believe our life condition is getting better? With data and logic, we can say the evidence of persuasive value. For example, we acknowledge our living condition have meliorated a lot by judging that some decades ago, common citizens were living in the dark and humid apartment, while nowadays it is normal for them to reside in skyscraper with central air conditioners and elevators; abundant of commodities could prove that the economic conditions is improving by comparing with the property we suffered years ago. To the contrary, when we are told social conditions improve without the support of concrete data or logic deduction, all this evidence would be nonsense--- it is hard to convince other people the betterment of our life by only saying that “our life is improving”.

However, not all aspects of our progress and regress could be measured by methods mentioned above. In personal life, it is hard to measure pain or discomfort by scientific tools or logic. In fact, things so abstract as feelings and emotions could not be indicated by our material methods. we cannot say how many or how much pain we are suffering by careful measurement or logic, any endeavor of trying to knowledge the data of pain is weird. Meanwhile, it is also unwise to measure the status of our emotion: neither can we set ranks nor define criteria by which measurement could be carried out. In society as a whole, is it possible that our democracy level could be indicated by enormous data? Isn't it groundless for us to resort to scientific tools when we want to know how far we have advanced or retreat in humanity, or can we say how more freedoms we are enjoying than our forebears 100 years ago? Furthermore, logic in these situations could also help little: without necessary support of data, it is difficult for it to get any conclusion.

In sum, as the reasons listed above, I believe resorting to logic and measurement could give us much guidance of judging our progress or regress in many respect, while we could not blind to see that in some other aspects, which mainly depends on individuals' interests, feelings, values and ranks, these method could do little to help.

mack1983UID: 183345

呵呵,好久没来,作文都被冲到第二版了,嗯,谢谢xiaohe,仔细研究一下

xiaoheUID: 162707

来谈谈我的意见，不知你还需不需要。

1 立论是有条件的同意，对吧？观点很明确，层次很清楚，前两段B同意，B3反对，这方面没问题。

2 举的例子中有几个明显欠说服力或角度不太好：
In everyday life, how could we measure the condition of our health? One year ago, I could only run no more than 3000 meters, yet now I could cover the length as much as 20 kilometers. 判断人体健康状况并不一定通过这种方式吧？而通常是physical examination which include blood presure, pulse, blood examination之类；

What has made us believe our life condition is getting better?你作的解释当然可以，但深入思考一下，不还是一系列指标吗？如人均住房面积、人均收入、人均消费、等等

In fact, things so abstract as feelings and emotions could not be indicated by our material methods. we cannot say how many or how much pain we are suffering by careful measurement or logic, any endeavor of trying to knowledge the data of pain is weird. 这里面也有两个问题。一，这跟题目中的how far we have advanced or retreated有什么关系呢？二，不管你信不信，对 feelings and emotions 还真有很多对应的测量方案，如对某项工作的满意度，对某人的智商、情商、个性、素质等等，社会上都有了多种颇具理论性和可行性的方案。通过这些测量方法，能帮助判断该项工作成效如何，如何改进；该人是否胜任某项工作，应在哪些方面继续努力提升。等等

你觉得题目难写，不妨反过来想想，或许向左行不通就说明应该向右走呢？

3 语言方面很好，虽然仍有个别语法错误，但不影响意思表达，可以忽略不计了吧。

以上意见仅供参考，欢迎进一步交流。
另外，我这两天研究范文去了，没怎么到版上来。怎么也不见你了呢？钻研Arguement去了吗？成果如何？

mack1983UID: 183345

自己顶一把,要不被水冲走了