Claim: The best test of an argument is its ability to convince someone with an opposing viewpoint. Reason: 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.

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Claim: The best test of an argument is its ability to convince someone with an opposing viewpoint. Reason: 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.

I agree with the statement that a good test, may not be the best, for an argument is its ability to convincing someone with an opposite viewpoint. However, I can’t agree with the extremity of the reason provided: only being forced to defend the idea against idea one discovers the true potential of the idea.
Convincing the opposition is the best test for an argument only when the opposition’s view is also rationally strong and the opposition is not obdurate to accept view other than his/her own. If the opposition is weak, lacks knowledge about the topic under discussion then he/she can be easily convinced even if the argument is not strong. On the other hand, if the opposition is too stubborn to change his/her view and sticks to his/her belief then you can’t convince him anyway. But, that doesn’t mean that your argument is valueless, it is just that the person you are arguing with not open to accept ideas that differ from his/her own.
However, if the opposition is rational and possess good quality counter-argument then convincing him/her is really a good test. As the opposition approaches you with logical counter-arguments you will try to come up with more logical explanations behind your idea. This kind of opposition will try to point you some loopholes in your idea and that will challenge you to come up with more logical explanation to discard those loopholes. This way you will find out your idea or argument is really strong or not.
Now coming to the reason provided with claim, it is not true that only when we have to defend our idea we discover its true value. Value of an idea can be discover while development stage also. Before claiming anything or raising our idea to someone, we ourselves try to judge and verify our points.
In conclusion, I will say that convincing someone with opposite view is definitely a good way to test an idea as long as the opposition is open minded and possess good quality logic.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 128, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...nvincing him/her is really a good test. As the opposition approaches you with logi...
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Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
...can be discover while development stage also. Before claiming anything or raising ou...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'anyway', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'really', 'so', 'then', 'while', 'in conclusion', 'kind of', 'on the other hand']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.191601049869 0.240241500013 80% => OK
Verbs: 0.173228346457 0.157235817809 110% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0839895013123 0.0880659088768 95% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0866141732283 0.0497285424764 174% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0708661417323 0.0444667217837 159% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.0997375328084 0.12292977631 81% => OK
Participles: 0.0314960629921 0.0406280797675 78% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.74118605555 2.79330140395 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0393700787402 0.030933414821 127% => OK
Particles: 0.00787401574803 0.0016655270985 473% => OK
Determiners: 0.0892388451444 0.0997080785238 90% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0262467191601 0.0249443105267 105% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00787401574803 0.0148568991511 53% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1968.0 2732.02544248 72% => OK
No of words: 339.0 452.878318584 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.80530973451 6.0361032391 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.58838876751 94% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.312684365782 0.366273622748 85% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.23598820059 0.280924506359 84% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.171091445428 0.200843997647 85% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.115044247788 0.132149295362 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74118605555 2.79330140395 98% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 219.290929204 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47197640118 0.48968727796 96% => OK
Word variations: 48.0607259168 55.4138127331 87% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 20.6194690265 68% => OK
Sentence length: 24.2142857143 23.380412469 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.1683978121 59.4972553346 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.571428571 141.124799967 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2142857143 23.380412469 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.928571428571 0.674092028746 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 47.8131057733 51.4728631049 93% => OK
Elegance: 0.97619047619 1.64882698954 59% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.507701521586 0.391690518653 130% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.170879625191 0.123202303941 139% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.108581858482 0.077325440228 140% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.643563455249 0.547984918172 117% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.16386130227 0.149214159877 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.210753614963 0.161403998019 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107826386511 0.0892212321368 121% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.270819590429 0.385218514788 70% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0991841230769 0.0692045440612 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.332712231573 0.275328986314 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.145574662658 0.0653680567796 223% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.4325221239 77% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.30420353982 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88274336283 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 7.22455752212 55% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.70907079646 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 6.0 13.5995575221 44% => More topic words wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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