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 discussion of the measure of truth or cogency an argument ,is not a trivial one. In fact, it has been a bone of contention among many historians and psychologists alike. The prompt suggests that the best way to prove the validity of an argument is its convincing power. In other words, it implies that a good argument can be called so, if it is able to shift an opposing party’s viewpoint. I mostly disagree with this statement for two reasons.
To begin, the convincing power of a religious argument does not reveal any form of truth or fact behind it. That is, the fact that people believe a certain dogma does not imply any level of validity in it. For instance, the conversion of an individual from one religion to another occurs when such person believes the argument that a religion is superior to others, or that belief in that religion may bring about improvement in the individual’s well-being. This is not backed up by facts or empirical observation most of the time, but by mere faith which in itself may be misleading. Research has shown that, religions with a large following are often based off of writings in holy books that dictate a reality which cannot be proven in today’s world by scientific data. Some elements in these holy books include the presence of angels, demons, giants, dragons and the likes. Because the existence of these phenomena cannot be explicitly proven, it means that the arguments pushed by these dogma are of questionable validity; but people are still convinced, and proceed to believe in them.
Secondly, people tend to believe what suits their experience and agenda. In other words, a person will believe what makes him happy. Take for example the very popular story of the Emperor’s clothes. The emperor in his pride and valor, decided to hire the best tailors around to make him a garment that reflects the majesty that came with his high rank in society. These tailors, being cunning and wiser than him, made him believe that they had sewn an outfit for him that only wise men could see. He believed this, although this was a lie (a blatant one, at best), and ended up wearing it to the parade held in his province. This example illustrates that if an individual is told some thing he wishes to hear, then my bet is on him believing it; even if such a statement or argument is a lie.
However, when thought about deeply, there are no other sensible metrics one can use to judge the power or validity of an argument. How else can an argument be tested or judged? The sole purpose of an argument is to convince the listeners or consumers of the argument, and the success rate of this argument’s cogency is measured by the number of people it changes; whether the argument is founded on terrible assumptions or not.
In conclusion, the complexity of this issue is on the high side. It may be near impossible to prove that an argument’s validity can be tested by its cogency power.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 62, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... measure of truth or cogency an argument ,is not a trivial one. In fact, it has be...
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Line 3, column 986, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this dogma' or 'these dogmas', 'these dogmata'?
Suggestion: this dogma; these dogmas; these dogmata
..., it means that the arguments pushed by these dogma are of questionable validity; but peopl...
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Line 5, column 679, Rule ID: ANY_BODY[2]
Message: Did you mean 'something'?
Suggestion: something
...lustrates that if an individual is told some thing he wishes to hear, then my bet is on hi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, well, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 56.0 33.0505617978 169% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 12.9106741573 163% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2432.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 519.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.6859344894 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7730044521 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58096782835 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 215.323595506 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527938342967 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 773.1 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.323264014 60.3974514979 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.333333333 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.625 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.375 5.21951772744 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
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: 0.23806630837 0.243740707755 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0691879005948 0.0831039109588 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0579985304541 0.0758088955206 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148925269884 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0707915858117 0.0667264976115 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 14.1392134831 81% => 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: 9.92 12.1639044944 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 100.480337079 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => 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: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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.