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happyman2000UID：136936

Issue 18 "Only by being forced to defend an idea against the doubts and contrasting views of others does one really discover the value of that idea."


Consciously or unconsciously, we compare the ideas presented to us with these or those ones. This is by no means a dispensable leaning habit, because through which we could really discover and appreciate the value of the ideas.

No knowledge or ideas can be actually self-evident, which is true even in the highly abstract area of mathematics. Maybe some mathematical theorems can complete their proving process within their own scopes. But without the process of defending themselves against the competitive theories, we couldn’t forever determine whether these theorems are much more succinct, useful and well founded, which are, however, the most valuable characteristics of mathematics. Only by comparing with the doubts and the contrasting views, can we efficiently find the critical differences between competitive thoughts and thus determine what is the true value existing in these or those thoughts. Historically, the really great thoughts were almost always going against those traditional ones at least in some aspects. Therefore, before much larger number of audience being attained, a violent or even sanguinary fight for truth is indispensable. Without the fight against the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, how could we tell the great value in the Copernicus’s theory that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun? Similarly, without the intense disputes with the Newton classic mechanics, how could we ultimately appreciate the revolutionary meanings of Einstein’s thoughts about the relationship between space, time and velocity? In a word, without these defending processes, people couldn’t really appreciate the vivifying fruits of truth.

Through defending against the doubts and the contrasting ideas, we can also significantly improve the original one and therefore continuously rediscover its value. Any thoughts or ideas, however useful or true in themselves, couldn’t completely avoid flaws in their beginning. They must make strides forward in the process of disputing with doubts and competing ones, through which they can reprove their truth and value more cogently. Adam Smith, the giant of economics, was distinguished by his famous apothegm about “the blind hind”. He said, “A society in which everyone acts selfishly on behalf of his or her own benefits still can attain its prosperity eventually by the management of ‘the blind hind’, the market competition. ” this idea, as the most classic conclusion in economics, was violently challenged and suspected several times, firstly by Karl Marx, who advocated that market competition would lead capitalism into collapse; later, by Keynes, who putted up his thoughts about government intervening that greatly influenced the behaviors of governments all over the world; recently, by the successful economic experiences in newly developed countries or regions such as Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and so on. But confronted with the powerful defiance, the thought of competition didn’t go downwards. On the contrary, it thrived again every time when it undergone a forbidding challenge. The key to this theory’s success is that after amending itself partly, its intrinsic value can be quickly reproved and rediscovered by deliberately comparing its virtue and deficiency with that of its competing theories.

In conclusion, without defending against the doubts and the competing views, we couldn’t really understand the value of the ideas; also, we couldn’t improve on the ideas and rediscover its intrinsic value when confronted with powerful defiance.  (538 words)

happyman2000UID：136936

啊啊！还没人看，已经淹没到后面了！

happyman2000UID：136936

我这篇文章是不是写得太差了，大家懒得发表意见？！

screwUID：135321

整篇文章写很流畅，说理也清楚，架构也好...佩服!

以下是小弟的拙见
如果我没理解错的话，第三段的Topic sentence 应为improve the original idea and rediscovery its value through defending process
在您提出的market competition例子中，它分别被Karl及Keynes质疑过，也在各国经由实践证明this idea的true value ，可是这中间的过程您好像没有说明整个idea不论是在被质疑之后或在实践时的改善过程以及是它初期是否有flaw之处…我个人认为，如果有具体说出的话会和TS更切合。

小弟不是学经济的，如果所指有误或是任何可笑之处，还望见谅...^_^;

happyman2000UID：136936

to screw

你说得很对， 那个问题我的确没说清楚。当时我主要是担心那一段太长，显得不够协调，所以没敢深入论述。看来这是个错误的决定！我今后会注意的，不能因为形式而牺牲内容！

多谢指教！

paisleyUID：64183

原来是你自己顶的啊。我看回复那么多就没来了。不过你发文章好勤啊，我实在顾不过来了。我一般先照顾初次发文章的朋友。