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.
The statement states that if someone wants to test an argument, he should put it to the test, by using it to try to change someone’s mind. If the argument holds while its being attack, then you’ll know that this argument is justifiable in your opinion. Some people might stand against this argument by saying that you cant know if an argument is true only by seeing if it can endure attacks from other arguments or people. Arguments can sometimes hold their place against an attack only because the one who’s defending it, is good in defending arguments of his own. In addition, the reason can be that the against argument defenders are just weak. On the other hand, I think that the claim is true and that refers to many reasons.
First, in human nature when anyone tries to offend an argument, he tends to bring up every small flaw in that argument. Which implies that if the argument holds against that attack on every flaw and hole in it’s structure, then the argument should be justifiable at least. For example, when me and my friends argue about something like electric cars and their future for example, all of us tend to catch every flaw and every wrong word that any other mentions. Other than it taking so much time, that allows us to mention every side of the argument. And again, if an argument survives that, then it should be true.
Second, when anyone tries to defend some argument for any reason. That person will tend to incline naturally to this argument and get more convinced in it, even if it wasn’t that convincing to start with. Because the arguer will tend to search every where for arguments, evidences and information that refers to the argument, he will earn knowledge in that subject more and more. Which will lead him at the end to believe in that argument even more than before. For example, some of my friends goes to competitions for arguments regularly. In those competitions, every team picks an argument and defend it against the opposing team. They always say to me that whenever they had to pick the argument that they didn’t support. they end up supporting that argument afterwards. Even though they couldn’t disagree more before that competition.
Finally, our brains always tend to convince us with the ideas that we are always subjected to. Even if we didn’t think that one day we would support them.
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- Claim: The best test of an argument is its ability to convince someone with an opposingviewpoint.Reason: Only by being forced to defend an idea against the doubts and contrastingviews of others does one really discover the value of that idea. 66
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 330, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...gainst this argument by saying that you cant know if an argument is true only by see...
^^^^
Line 5, column 251, Rule ID: EVERY_WHERE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'everywhere'?
Suggestion: everywhere
... Because the arguer will tend to search every where for arguments, evidences and informatio...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 387, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Which” 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.
...nowledge in that subject more and more. Which will lead him at the end to believe in ...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 737, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: They
...argument that they didn't support. they end up supporting that argument afterwa...
^^^^
Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...k that one day we would support them.
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, if, second, so, then, while, at least, for example, i think, in addition, to start with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.5258426966 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 30.0 11.3162921348 265% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 66.0 33.0505617978 200% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 12.9106741573 186% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1987.0 2235.4752809 89% => OK
No of words: 413.0 442.535393258 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.81113801453 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50803742585 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49393732808 2.79657885939 89% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 215.323595506 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498789346247 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 599.4 704.065955056 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.3559575005 60.3974514979 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.3181818182 118.986275619 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7727272727 23.4991977007 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.54545454545 5.21951772744 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.13820224719 253% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.268981840049 0.243740707755 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0880369541409 0.0831039109588 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0664409431083 0.0758088955206 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159875214958 0.150359130593 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0866466227172 0.0667264976115 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 14.1392134831 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.09 8.38706741573 85% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 100.480337079 67% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.