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发表于 2007-10-29 12:20:06
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225"People often look for similarities, even between very different things, and even when it is unhelpful or harmful to do so. Instead, a thing should be considered on its own terms; we should avoid the tendency to compare it to something else."
提纲:
头段:世上没有完全相同的两片叶子,因此事物之间存在差异,同时这些事物之间又都有或多或少的联系,这是世界的客观规律。为了很好的认识事物,改造事物,将事物之间作比较很重要。
理由:
1:事物之间的区别普遍存在,深入地认识事物之间的区别有助于改进我们的知识结构,促进社会进步。
2:事物之间也存在联系,很好的找出它们之间的相同点,有助于我们更好抓住事物的本质。
3:然而,我们不能盲目的将一切事物进行对比。
尾段:我们因该进行有助于促进知识结构改进,促使社会进步的有意义的比较,避免那些庸俗的毫无意义的比较。
As the old saying goes: “exactly, there are not the same two leaves in this world”, everything, mostly, is different from other things. Whereas, the philosopher has said: “every thing, more or less, collects with each other”, which means things also have the similarities. The differences and similarities are the inevitabilities of things, it is, therefore, very important to rule out differences, such as the distinctive characters of each, and similarities of things.
Everything has interconnection with others to some extent. The fact that even two quite independent objects have subtle connection or similar regulation makes comparison of similarities essential for people to utilize the interconnection and intersection to develop new ideas and explore novel discoveries. For instance, without calculus, economics would never have seen the booming growth of its last thirty years. Mathematics converted economics from a qualitative, speculative field to a quantitative, definitive one, which enables economists gain more in-depth views about the regulation of economy and even construct modeling to give prospect of the future. Also, without supporting advances in calculus, neither classical physics nor quantum physics could reach today’s resplendence, let alone quantum cosmology, which will lead us to solve the mystery of the cosmos.
Besides the intersection of every subject, there is another side of things called difference that every field has its own objective disciplines, internal regulation, potential rules and established logic frame. As we know, difference exists in all the things and comparisons of difference make possible improvement in our intelligence, social advancement and endless other areas. Ever since primitive ages, people have ceaselessly and enthusiastically made comparisons with each other.
An outstanding instance occurred in 1869,Dmitry Mendeleyev, a Russian chemist, put sixty three chemical elements which had been discovered at that time together and carefully compared, finding differences among them, finally, drew up a periodic table of the elements arranged to illustrate patterns of recurring chemical and physical properties. Mendeleyev used this table to predict the existence and describe the properties of several elements unknown in his day, and when the elements were discovered several years later, his predictions proved to be correct. And it is through this process that human beings have become rational and intelligent, with the highly refined technology and sciences as this process’s by-products.
However, we should avoid compare things blindly. On one hand, insisting on finding similarities between things can result in unfair comparisons. For example, by focusing on similarities among universities, we may overlook their distinctive characters, architectures, and cultures. Without analyzing the prerequisite and difference of a discipline from another field before using it directly, one will probably find it false or inefficient. On the other hand, blindly finding differences among thing leads to ignore some valuable similarities which may contribute to a breakthrough.
To sum up, there are always differences and similarities among things, which is an objective regulation of the world. Only through that we figure out the differences and similarities of things insightfully, avoiding the meaningless and blind comparison, can one make breakthrough and the society progress.
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