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 author claims that the argument is considered cogent and well-formed if it can convince someone with the opposing viewpoint. The notion
upon which the author bases his claim is that validity of an idea is established only when it stands firm against the contrasting views
of the opposers. No doubt, the purpose of any argument is to prove validity of its claims. If opposing viewpoint puts forth ideas that
you cannot refute and hence cannot make the other party agree to your provided reasons, you with all certainty have an ill-formed case.
The building of science and all its sub-branches are contingent upon the pillars of justifiable arguments. Formulation of laws in science are
the best example of this. The usual course an idea takes in becoming a law goes through various stages including observation, theory formulation,
experiment, and analysis, and only the hypothesis that is corroborated by the results of the experiments becomes a law. A mere glance at this
process insinuates that if a scientist has a cogent theory and he/she can logically debunk all claims against it, he can turn it into a law,
which is universally accepted and acclaimed. On the other hand, theories that fail to challenge contentious viewpoints remain unsubstantiated
and open to debate until further progress is made in tackling such antithetical views.
To account for the validity of author's claim, let’s take some examples from some professionals' work-life. A senior software engineer architect,
who works at a software house that develops web and mobile applications, oversees development of client products and takes important decisions about
the product throughout its life-cycle, i.e. software requirement gathering, documentation, development, and testing of the product. My uncle who works
as an architect, once had a heated argument with the developers about which programming language to use for an e-commerce website. The developers
insisted on using C# language instead of JAVA, arguing that they have experience in C# and thus will be able to save time. On the contrary, my uncle
convinced them to use JAVA by rejecting their claim of saving time. He put forth the argument that most of the company's products are in JAVA and if we
switch to something totally different, even though it will save time initially, but the maintenance of a product written in completely different language
would not only require much more time, but also involve greater maintenance cost, since maintenance team does not have expertise in C#. So, either the company
will have to train the employees or hire people with required expertise. By properly refuting the claims of the developers was my uncle able to convince
his team. If he had not been able to logically disprove developers' claim, the developers might have conceded on working in JAVA because of my uncle's seniority,
but this contention would have lead to even stronger revolt from developers.
Building upon a case for validity of author's argument, lets peek into a hearing of a typical crime at a criminal court. The suspect is brought in the court and
accused of burglary. The suspect claims that he was not at the place of crime when the incidence happened. In fact, he was out of city that day. Now, if the
prosecutor can reject suspect's claim of being out of town, he can make his case stronger. The prosecutor, provides evidence of the suspect's car parked near
the place of crime and his DNA found in the house he burglarized. The prosecutor shows the correctness of his claim by rejecting suspect's false claims. This
shows that argument that follows a logical course of ideas and has strength to refute all contrasting claims is considered sound and convincing.
To sum up, contrasting views are like competitors in a competition, only one can win, and all others lose. The winning argument is the one that supersedes all
others. If the logically cogent argument fails to account for other views, it is bound to face serious backlash from opponents and unlikely to convince people.
This general hypothesis does not only apply to science, logic and philosophy, but it’s also applicable to plethora of quotidian disagreements and disputes.
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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. 66
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- The following appears in a letter to the editor for the West Lansburg News:"The tufted groundhog lives in the coastal wetlands of West Lansburg. Ancient records suggest that the tufted groundhog once numbered in the millions. Since they were declared a wi 16
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, so, thus, well, in fact, no doubt, on the contrary, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 33.0505617978 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 97.0 58.6224719101 165% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 12.9106741573 186% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3616.0 2235.4752809 162% => OK
No of words: 692.0 442.535393258 156% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22543352601 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.12892706869 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86009784995 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 348.0 215.323595506 162% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.50289017341 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 1106.1 704.065955056 157% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 17.0 4.99550561798 340% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 9.0 1.77640449438 507% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.8875082299 60.3974514979 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.533333333 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0666666667 23.4991977007 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.4 5.21951772744 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 29.0 4.97078651685 583% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 30.0 7.80617977528 384% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.13820224719 253% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.256855018869 0.243740707755 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.061848557557 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0586742653657 0.0758088955206 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0629518306101 0.150359130593 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0641247009185 0.0667264976115 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 165.0 100.480337079 164% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.