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.
The world is filled with people with diverse opinions. One person might take the side of an opinion while the other might take the opposite view. The prompt suggests that an argument can be tested based on its ability to persuade the opposition. In my opinion, this view is true in most of the cases, but there are certain situations where the statement might not hold.
To begin, an argument's strength can be evaluated based on how effective it is in espousing the opposition camp. The more opposers that the argument is able to convince the better the argument is. The reason for this is that the people opposing the view will try their best to downplay the argument put forward by their opponents. However, if the argument is able to withstand their opposing viewpoints then it is clear that the argument is able to convince them, which demonstrates its strength of persuasion. To clarify, consider the case of a graduate student applying to pursue his PhD, where admission officers are always on a watch to reject those profiles they deem not suitable to gain admission in their program. In such a situation, it is the argument that the student puts forward in terms of his statement of purpose or resume, that determines their chances of admission. Here, if the student was able to persuade the admissions officer through his argument, then it is clearly an indicator of the strength of his argument. According to the example, it is clear that the strength of an argument can be tested by its power to persuade the opposition.
Furthermore, when the argument is able to convince the opponents, then it can be assumed that the argument has no flaws. In fact, the person was able to construct a strong argument such that even the arguers of the viewpoint could not find an issue to target. Consider the case of scientists who are always questioned by newspapers, governments about the credibility of their research. However, when a scientist comes up with a strong reason for his research even the newspapers who first condemned has to accept the proposal. For instance, when DR APJ Abdul Kalam set out to develop missiles for India, most of the newspapers criticized him, but when he came up with the reasons, as for why the country needs to go ahead with the research, even the opposers had to accept his strong argument. Hence, to say that an argument can be tested by its ability to persuade the opposition is true.
However, there are certain situations where it testing an argument based on its persuasive power is not valid. The world is filled with stubborn people who do not accept any view that opposes their own. In such a case, would measure the strength of an argument by the method suggest hold? No, it will not. For example, even today with many proofs that support that Earth has a spherical shape, many people still consider Earth to be flat. No amount of scientific proofs were able to persuade these people. Therefore, testing an argument solely on the basis of convincing power is not always correct.
To sum up, although measuring the ability of an argument on the basis of its ability to convince the opposition camp is valid in may scenarios, depending solely on it is not suitable for every occasion due to the facts mentioned above.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 14, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'arguments'' or 'argument's'?
Suggestion: arguments'; argument's
...atement might not hold. To begin, an arguments strength can be evaluated based on how ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, so, still, then, therefore, while, as for, as to, for example, for instance, in fact, in my opinion, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 14.8657303371 20% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.3162921348 212% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 50.0 33.0505617978 151% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 82.0 58.6224719101 140% => OK
Nominalization: 28.0 12.9106741573 217% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2705.0 2235.4752809 121% => OK
No of words: 568.0 442.535393258 128% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76232394366 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.88187981987 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56632354534 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.427816901408 0.4932671777 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 837.0 704.065955056 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.2718410913 60.3974514979 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.038461538 118.986275619 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8461538462 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.15384615385 5.21951772744 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.13820224719 214% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.298289331034 0.243740707755 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0935918549809 0.0831039109588 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0538200497589 0.0758088955206 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17866273799 0.150359130593 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0267812011194 0.0667264976115 40% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.1392134831 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.33 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.71 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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.