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.
This topic raises a very controversial issue of whether, the argument's best test is its ability to convince someone with an opposing viewpoint or, not. Indisputably, there are many arguments which convince the people with opposing view point by giving significant proof. Yet, it is not necessary that if the argument is worthy than it must be able to convince someone who opposes it. Thus, I would like to disagree with the contention of the author and would generally agree that the argument's best test is not its ability to cogent with viewpoint.
Firstly, there are many people who opposes some or the other viewpoints. But, it is not necessary that they are all correct about it. So, now for all those who are wrong it might be possible that some of them be so recalcitrunt that they straight away disagree with facts of the argument and the analytical results. These people exists everywhere. The authenticity of the argument if decided by these people than most of the established principles and rules would be relegated to spurious.
Secondly, the reason given for the contention is trivial. The value of that idea does not depend only on the defence against contrasting views and doubts of the others. To illustrate, let us take an example, like person is having an idea about making a solar toaster. As, he is able to defend his idea well so its value must be more. Some another person supposedly had an idea about Space Rocket Exhaustion System that affects the efficiency of the Space Rocket. But, he is not able to convince it to other. Hence, as a result his idea is less valuable. But, we know which one is more worthy obviously Rocket related one.
Admittedly, there are many arguments that convinces people of its worth and therefore, increases their value or makes themself more significant. But, that does not mean that only these ideas are worthy. This worthyness of the ideas must be decided by the other factors like its cost, affecting zones, related tools and equipments, etc. Also, there are many ideas that have proved their worth without any argument against anybody like economical set of ideas form the Economist Chanakya.
To sum up, the contention of the author is indefensible. It is contrary to the overwhelming evidence that, the ideas worthyness is not known by its ability to convince. Thus, as long as, some measurements are involved, or some cases are considered, the conclusion that the ideas significance is not its ability to convince but, are some other more reliable and evidential factors holds credit.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 329, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'exist'.
Suggestion: exist
...nd the analytical results. These people exists everywhere. The authenticity of the arg...
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Line 5, column 274, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'ideas'' or 'idea's'?
Suggestion: ideas'; idea's
...are considered, the conclusion that the ideas significance is not its ability to conv...
^^^^^
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'hence', 'if', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'thus', 'well', 'as for', 'as a result', 'to sum up']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.191358024691 0.240241500013 80% => OK
Verbs: 0.166666666667 0.157235817809 106% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0781893004115 0.0880659088768 89% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0761316872428 0.0497285424764 153% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0576131687243 0.0444667217837 130% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.102880658436 0.12292977631 84% => OK
Participles: 0.0329218106996 0.0406280797675 81% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.63602573073 2.79330140395 94% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0267489711934 0.030933414821 86% => OK
Particles: 0.00205761316872 0.0016655270985 124% => OK
Determiners: 0.104938271605 0.0997080785238 105% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0144032921811 0.0249443105267 58% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0185185185185 0.0148568991511 125% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2549.0 2732.02544248 93% => OK
No of words: 433.0 452.878318584 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.88683602771 6.0361032391 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56165014514 4.58838876751 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.309468822171 0.366273622748 84% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.240184757506 0.280924506359 85% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.180138568129 0.200843997647 90% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.122401847575 0.132149295362 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63602573073 2.79330140395 94% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 219.290929204 94% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475750577367 0.48968727796 97% => OK
Word variations: 52.5876469608 55.4138127331 95% => OK
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6194690265 116% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0416666667 23.380412469 77% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.2294620177 59.4972553346 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.208333333 141.124799967 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0416666667 23.380412469 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.666666666667 0.674092028746 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 42.0601424172 51.4728631049 82% => OK
Elegance: 1.08904109589 1.64882698954 66% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.521674069527 0.391690518653 133% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.088713642979 0.123202303941 72% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0689987555718 0.077325440228 89% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.487957389392 0.547984918172 89% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.150833008405 0.149214159877 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.175779147913 0.161403998019 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.114276637551 0.0892212321368 128% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.301125190013 0.385218514788 78% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0736158232874 0.0692045440612 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.331624909437 0.275328986314 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102184650213 0.0653680567796 156% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.4325221239 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.30420353982 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88274336283 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 7.22455752212 125% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.70907079646 148% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 13.5995575221 110% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 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.