ISSUE TOPIC

[kwame.appau]

I wrote an essay about a GRE Issue Topic :"Important truths begins as outrageous, or at least uncomfortable, attacks upon the accepted wisdom of the time."

I allow some of my friends to read and evaluate the logicality,flow and organization of my essay but they were finding it difficult to understand the question. This is how i answered.

after my thesis in support of the topic above that there is no doubt that important truth which disprove an already accepted wisdom create conflict between the advocates of the accepted wisdom and the author of the truth.

the examples I used were;
Galileo Proving the notion of uniformly accelerated objects and was excommunicated from Pisa.
2. Copernicus proving that the earth revolve round the sun.
3. Martin Luther 95 theses pasted on the door of the cathedral
. please I just wanna know if my examples really answer and logically implies my thesis.

[tommywallach]

Hey Kwame,

Yes, the examples are fine. I'm a little bit confused though, because there's a difference between:

Important truths begin as attacks on accepted wisdom.

AND

Important truths which disprove accepted wisdom create conflict.

The second one is obvious, and not in need of defense. The first one is more interesting, but it doesn't seem to be what you talked about. The question is whether important truths are, BY DEFINITIONS, attacks on something else, not whether conflict is created when someone says something that creates conflict (that's circular reasoning).

Hope that helps!

-t