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wendysunUID: 113798

92. In any academic area or professional field, it is just as important to recognize the limits of our knowledge and understanding as it is to acquire new facts and information.


During the process of academic or professional study and research, both the reorganization of limits of our knowledge and understanding and the acquirement of new facts and information play an important role.
It is necessary to realize the limitation. Currently, there is no academic area or professional field is fully developed, that is to say the knowledge and understanding now are limited, the limitation will cause some problems that people couldn't solve now. When people realize the limitation, they may try their best to find some way to solve the problems. This process promotes the research of that field. Just suppose when you read a recollection of a woman who lived in the 17th century, you may find you are not familiar with the background of Gunpowder Plot, and this may cause that you cannot understand what was the writer describe. Your current knowledge is limited, and then you may take the solution that finding some books which relate to this affair to help you understand the background. Then you can go on reading your book with a better understanding. Realize the limitation of the knowledge or understand can make you get more information in order to help you with your study and research.
On the other hand, the acquirement of new facts and information can give the scholar a large picture, people can get useful conclusions and valuable data by the inner integration of the new information and the current knowledge to help them with the further study. Humans are born curious, thus people never stop probing the unknown things. The new facts and information may not only bring new field of the academic area but also disabuse the fallacies of the past even impel the development of contemporary theory. Just like the appearance of radar, the scholars of aeronautics use the knowledge that comes from the zoology and the theory of bionics to invent a new technique which can be widely used in aeronautics. New facts and information could invites further exploration and more progress as a result.
Although new facts and information can deepen and broaden our understanding of the unknown, it is difficult for people to properly and usefully assimilate the mass of new information that have come out of research. Knowing the limits of current knowledge and understanding can lead the scholar to seek the ways which are more efficient and quicker for them to search in the academic area or professional field. However, overemphasizing the limits of our knowledge and understanding may hinder our effort to ceaselessly pursue new frontiers of knowledge.
The limits of our knowledge and understanding can motivate people to acquire new information and facts to solve the present problems so that make further research and study, meanwhile, knowing the new information and facts could open people’s mind and give them more opportunities to find useful things for the consummation and enrichment of the academic study or professional research. Both of them are helpful and valuable. For these reasons, to recognize the limits of our knowledge and understanding is as important as to acquire the things unknown. (516 words.)

wendysunUID: 113798

still no feedback? well, anyway, i tip it again!!

tyzhetUID: 138408

Does recognizing the limits of our knowledge and understanding is as important
as acquiring new facts and information? It seems an obvious conclusion at first
glance, but I don't think this conclusion is right in any academic area or
professional field.
It is true that recognizing the limits of our knowledge and understanding is
very important in some academic area or professional field refering to people's
lives and the security of personal wealth. For example, In medical area, no doctor
can make a conclusion or a recommandation to a patient who the doctor has no ensurance
in full percentages because a little mistake will change the patient's situation
or sentence the patient to death. The limit of the doctor's knowledge and
understanding is the guarrentee of patient's life. In addition, such as
a construction program of a bridge, the architecture and the style are due to the
limit of the knowledge and understanding of the engineers and could not preceed it
absolutely, with thousands people's lives hanging on it.
But in some front technology researching area, the importance of recognizing of
our knowledge and understanding is not so high. Let's have a look at the definition
of the knowledge, It means the experience ,the scientific standards and something
of routine. It means something known and has no danger to fails. So the over-focus
on the limit of our knowledge will make our mind conservative and no innovation.
But what our sientific and social development need is a creative brain and the
courage  to undergo the risk of fails, the risk of finding what doesn't work and the
risk of trying new ways. If a scientist is always focus on the limits of his
knowledge, he cannot concentrate on his research any more. His brain will be filled
with "conservative" knowledge and nothing innovative. Albert Einstein set up the
relativisim theory because he thought the classic physics is not his limit of knowledge.
To be more specific, a lastest research shows that the capability of human's brain has been exploided
only for 5 percent. It means that 95 percent of our brain is just blank. We have
owned the super computer at the speed of 5000 billion bits per second and the spacecraft
which can reach the edge of the solar system. So who can know our human's limit of
knowledge and understanding. My answer is "no one".
Even though the acknowledge of the limit of our knowledge and understanding is
very important in some practical area, the development and improvement of our
society really need the creative brain without any fear of proceeding the limit
of current knowledge and understanding.

wendysunUID: 113798

嗯，ideas很受用，有些观点稍加转化遍可成为新的论据^_^
只是为什么到现在都没人评改一下呢？大家都好忙，难道说上班了以后文章都写到让人难以拜读的水准了，singh~~我是一个失败的在职GTER,  要加油加油了！！