The author of the statement belives that the best way to know if an argument is true is to see if the people with opposing viewpoints would finilly agree with the argument and change their minds. I believe this viewpoint has many defects and I don't think this factor should be considered as the best test of an argument.
First, in some cases the peaple who think an argument is wrong might never be convinced to change their minds because of their lack of knowledge or simply because they are too stobern to admit they are wrong. For example, back when the electricity and electric power was being developed was about to be replaced with energy of fire, there were a big argument between Tesla and Edison about what current should be used for electic power of cities which is known as "the war of currents". Eventhough Tesla's point of view which was to use the alternating current was both mathematically and experimentaly proven, however, since back in those days Edison was a much more famuse person and people did not have enough knowledge to understand the Tesla's point of view, no one would agree with him. So for years, goverment tried to use DC current to power the city which became an unsuccessful project. So as you can see the abliity to convice others is not a good factor for proving the truth of an argument.
Furthermore, some people can be very persuacive and state a convincing argument and make the people with opposing viewpoints change their viewpoint even if they are the ones who have the better viewpoin. For instance, I remmeber back was in highschool, one time, teacher gave us an assignment and grouped us to analyse and discuss about a mechanical system and tell him the number of degrees of freedom the system had. At first I had the right answare but after disscussing my idea with a member in our group he convinced me that his idea which was very different from mine was the answare. So as you can see, since I was too easily conviced my view point which was the better one was not considered.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 245, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...e this viewpoint has many defects and I dont think this factor should be considered ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, so, as to, for example, for instance, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 58.6224719101 72% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1675.0 2235.4752809 75% => OK
No of words: 363.0 442.535393258 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.61432506887 5.05705443957 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52310318415 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 215.323595506 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.531680440771 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 527.4 704.065955056 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 20.2370786517 54% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 33.0 23.0359550562 143% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 66.5834466808 60.3974514979 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 152.272727273 118.986275619 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.0 23.4991977007 140% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.09090909091 5.21951772744 155% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.97078651685 60% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.303542577349 0.243740707755 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.124913789999 0.0831039109588 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0710611278208 0.0758088955206 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.231592144282 0.150359130593 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0656716833568 0.0667264976115 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 14.1392134831 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.44 48.8420337079 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.1743820225 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.05 12.1639044944 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 100.480337079 65% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 11.2143820225 136% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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