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.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
To defend oneself in a debate people often look for the best argument by exploring all the possibilities to come up with the most
convincing argument. It becomes difficult to come up with the best counter-argument to convince others. Even if one comes up
with an argument to know if the argument is the best and would be sufficient to convince others is difficult. I agree with the claim
that the best test of an argument is its ability to convince someone with an opposing viewpoint. It forces the other person
to first understand the argument and come up with something convincing enough to counter it.
Presenting an argument with an opposing viewpoint forces the other person to first assimilate it and then present counterarguments strong enough to counter it. By doing so, a person first deep dives to understand the meaning of the argument presented only then one can present an argument opposing it. Deep diving to explore the true meaning of an argument helps to understand the true nature, belief and origin of it. It helps to discover the value of the idea. Taking a simple example of student-teacher interaction, if the teacher presents a theory to a student, the student can raise doubts and present counterarguments only when he has understood the theory enough to develop and build countertheories on it. Similarly in a debate by being forced to defend an idea against the doubts and contrasting views of others does one really discover the value of that idea?
Looking back at all the discoveries and inventions by human beings, the claim presented seems to be the working principle for all of the invention's validation. During the early 16th century, the first person to present with the thought that the earth used to revolve around the sun faced backlash for having a counterbelief against then held common belief that it was the sun which revolved around the earth. However, being challenged and presented with an opposing viewpoint led to a major number of space studies by astronomers who came later as it was difficult to digest the new opposing belief. First understanding the true meaning of the argument and looking for answers led to the discovery of the telescope. Not only these but major discoveries were validated only when opposing viewpoint was presented to then held common belief forcing to defend an idea against the counter views helped to understand the true nature and value of the new belief presented and later people accepting it.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 130, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e possibilities to come up with the most convincing argument. It becomes difficul...
^^^
Line 7, column 715, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Similarly,
...evelop and build countertheories on it. Similarly in a debate by being forced to defend a...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 127, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...d seems to be the working principle for all of the inventions validation. During the early...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 138, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'inventions'' or 'invention's'?
Suggestion: inventions'; invention's
...be the working principle for all of the inventions validation. During the early 16th centu...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 847, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'defending'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'force' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: defending
...nted to then held common belief forcing to defend an idea against the counter views helpe...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, look, really, similarly, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.4196629213 24% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2071.0 2235.4752809 93% => OK
No of words: 418.0 442.535393258 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95454545455 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82746478848 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 215.323595506 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.421052631579 0.4932671777 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 635.4 704.065955056 90% => 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: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.4705506838 60.3974514979 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.4375 118.986275619 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.125 23.4991977007 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.625 5.21951772744 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
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: 0.469502121058 0.243740707755 193% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.18930699446 0.0831039109588 228% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.155684320386 0.0758088955206 205% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.253577685263 0.150359130593 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.160354892269 0.0667264976115 240% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.8420337079 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 100.480337079 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 130, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e possibilities to come up with the most convincing argument. It becomes difficul...
^^^
Line 7, column 715, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Similarly,
...evelop and build countertheories on it. Similarly in a debate by being forced to defend a...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 127, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...d seems to be the working principle for all of the inventions validation. During the early...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 138, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'inventions'' or 'invention's'?
Suggestion: inventions'; invention's
...be the working principle for all of the inventions validation. During the early 16th centu...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 847, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'defending'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'force' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: defending
...nted to then held common belief forcing to defend an idea against the counter views helpe...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, look, really, similarly, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.4196629213 24% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2071.0 2235.4752809 93% => OK
No of words: 418.0 442.535393258 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95454545455 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82746478848 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 215.323595506 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.421052631579 0.4932671777 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 635.4 704.065955056 90% => 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: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.4705506838 60.3974514979 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.4375 118.986275619 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.125 23.4991977007 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.625 5.21951772744 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
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: 0.469502121058 0.243740707755 193% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.18930699446 0.0831039109588 228% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.155684320386 0.0758088955206 205% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.253577685263 0.150359130593 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.160354892269 0.0667264976115 240% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.8420337079 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 100.480337079 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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.