The best test of an argument is the argument's ability to convince someone with an opposing viewpoint.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
We come across numerous situations in our daily life and tacking these situations require us to make important decisions. Some of these decisions end up going right whereas some may go awry and we need to take the blame for them. Whatever the case be taking a decision requires concrete thinking. However, things can go wrong anyway and the best way to undertake what went wrong is to analyze the argument that is made against our thought that we had while making that particular decision.
People around us may praise some of our decisions while others might criticize them. What makes any decision appropriate is the thinking that was involved behind making it; especially the consideration about what would happen if the decision ends up being wrong. If we consider the situation opposing our thinking and answer the questions that arise from it, the chances of that decision being wrong will be much less. Not only this, it would be a lot easier to defend our decision at the end of the day as well.
Therefore, I strongly agree with the statement that the best way to test your argument and its validity is to successfully overcome the opposing viewpoint. Though this may seem quite straight-forward, we have to consider numerous aspects to validate our claim and we must go through all these aspects one by one.
Whenever an argument is postulated or a suggestion is made, it is based on a certain premise or assumption from the point of view of the speaker/author. This view can often be biased or very generic and may not work under all circumstances. So using reverse hypothesis is a great way to analyze the validity of your own argument under different circumstances. For instance, light was first believed to be a wave in the 19th century but this theory was unable to explain certain phenomena exhibited by light. Due to this, people started questioning and by analysing the opposing view point, a new theory was developed depicting the particle nature of light. This gave birth to the present theory of light when two opposing views were substantiated by Einstein and Plank.
Our entire society is based on the foundation of opposing views, whether it is the election of the government, lawmaking or the judiciary. All arguments made about any subject-matter are evaluated according to the response of critiques and amendments are made accordingly, which gives birth to the best possible outcome in any scenario.
To conclude, it is quite evident that addressing the opposing views while trying to justify one’s own argument works as a great test for identifying the validity of any argument. Though it may not always be possible to convince critiques as their arguments may sometimes be based on incorrect logic or they may have a misunderstanding under the subject; countering the opposing view definitely serves as the tool for strengthening an argument and testing whether the logic used in the argument is valid
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, anyway, but, first, however, if, may, so, then, therefore, well, whereas, while, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2452.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 494.0 442.535393258 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96356275304 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71445763274 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83320983552 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508097165992 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 771.3 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.3795917601 60.3974514979 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.6 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.3 5.21951772744 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.161812414997 0.243740707755 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0501716069808 0.0831039109588 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0653338770581 0.0758088955206 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0893013316865 0.150359130593 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0552046501272 0.0667264976115 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.