Claim: The best test of an argument is its ability to convince someone with an opposing viewpoint.
The author claims that the best way to test an argument is that you convince opponents. However, others have the opposite view. As far as I am concerned, the last point carries more weight. It would be better to consider this issue with different opponents.
First, some people never accept your idea, and it is not related what you provide as reasons. In fact, your idea can put their profits on the line. I think that a small example can give some light on this topic. In the election debates, a candidate can not accept his rival’s comments, because he knows that this work can decrease his votes, and he would lose the competition. So, sometimes opponents' interest is the main important obstacle that they think your idea.
Second, some people can not accept a different idea that it is not according to their beliefs. Indeed, you never can convince a person, who has a strong religious background, when your opinion is different from what he thinks. Imagine you want to convince a Muslim that a homosexual is not culprit by medical scientist reasons, while he never can accept your idea because it is unlike their faith. Muslims believe that all things in their holy book—quran—are right forever, and this book god has forbidden homosexuals.
In contrary, with you dispute with other people, they can gain the deeper understanding of your idea. Therefore, convincing others lead to you sure your opinion is right. I think that there is not a better example of a teacher of theoretical physics. In the scientific environment, the logic is the main factor can confirm or violate an idea. This teacher can confirm his theory if he could provide logical reasons and convince other head teachers in this field of study.
All above evidence support this undeniable that convincing opponent can not always be the best way for testing an idea. Nevertheless, in some environment like the university, it can be true that you able test your argument by convincing others.
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Discourse Markers used:
['first', 'however', 'if', 'nevertheless', 'second', 'so', 'therefore', 'while', 'as for', 'i think', 'in fact']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.215223097113 0.240241500013 90% => OK
Verbs: 0.149606299213 0.157235817809 95% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0839895013123 0.0880659088768 95% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0551181102362 0.0497285424764 111% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0971128608924 0.0444667217837 218% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.10498687664 0.12292977631 85% => OK
Participles: 0.0209973753281 0.0406280797675 52% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.67538004326 2.79330140395 96% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0131233595801 0.030933414821 42% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.102362204724 0.0997080785238 103% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0393700787402 0.0249443105267 158% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.010498687664 0.0148568991511 71% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1986.0 2732.02544248 73% => OK
No of words: 336.0 452.878318584 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.91071428571 6.0361032391 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28139028586 4.58838876751 93% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.342261904762 0.366273622748 93% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.264880952381 0.280924506359 94% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.166666666667 0.200843997647 83% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.10119047619 0.132149295362 77% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67538004326 2.79330140395 96% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 219.290929204 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.52380952381 0.48968727796 107% => OK
Word variations: 55.1886798875 55.4138127331 100% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6194690265 97% => OK
Sentence length: 16.8 23.380412469 72% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.1557605521 59.4972553346 59% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.3 141.124799967 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8 23.380412469 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.55 0.674092028746 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.21349557522 0% => OK
Readability: 43.2880952381 51.4728631049 84% => OK
Elegance: 1.13043478261 1.64882698954 69% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.215334832726 0.391690518653 55% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0720381049162 0.123202303941 58% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0454589981045 0.077325440228 59% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.486450812499 0.547984918172 89% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.117923794648 0.149214159877 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0817851719061 0.161403998019 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0767549836783 0.0892212321368 86% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.277329159964 0.385218514788 72% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.059832545341 0.0692045440612 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154454683517 0.275328986314 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0805443760549 0.0653680567796 123% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.4325221239 105% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88274336283 61% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 7.22455752212 97% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.70907079646 37% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 13.5995575221 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.