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.
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. In the many situations you can not convene others, even though your idea was logically.
To illustrate my position, firs let us to take a look on why some people think that your idea is valuable when you can convince opponents. As we all know, you never can have entirely knowledge about a matter, and it is quite normal your idea can not be without faults. Discussing with opponents allows you to be aware of weaknesses of your idea, so you can better reform it. In this way, convincing opponents is an indication that your argument is right completely. For instance, a teacher of theoretical physics for confirming his theory, he should discuss with other teachers in this field study and convince them by the logical reasoning. Only through this, they can be sure of the correctness of theory.
In contrast, in most cases opponents may not be convince that your argument is correct, even thought you provide logical reasons. In fact, people who disagree with your argument can not accept it, because it can put their interest on the line. In addition, some people never can leave their old beliefs. I think that a small example can give some light on this matter. Nowadays, Galileo had proven that the earth is not the center of world, unlike what religious leaders had said. At that time, religious leaders could not accept their idea, because it lead to people think that the religious teaching can be false. Hence, they worried about their benefits. More over, people have the strong religious background, which did not allow them to accept Galileo’s opinion.
All above evidence supports this undeniable facts that opponents’ comments about your idea depends on many factors that logical reasoning is one of them.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 245, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... it can put their interest on the line. In addition, some people never can leave t...
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Line 5, column 554, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'leads'?
Suggestion: leads
...could not accept their idea, because it lead to people think that the religious teac...
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Discourse Markers used:
['hence', 'however', 'look', 'may', 'so', 'for instance', 'i think', 'in addition', 'in contrast', 'in fact', 'in most cases']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.210106382979 0.240241500013 87% => OK
Verbs: 0.156914893617 0.157235817809 100% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0824468085106 0.0880659088768 94% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0505319148936 0.0497285424764 102% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0957446808511 0.0444667217837 215% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.127659574468 0.12292977631 104% => OK
Participles: 0.0132978723404 0.0406280797675 33% => Some participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.53180352411 2.79330140395 91% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0159574468085 0.030933414821 52% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0771276595745 0.0997080785238 77% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0372340425532 0.0249443105267 149% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0159574468085 0.0148568991511 107% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1931.0 2732.02544248 71% => OK
No of words: 327.0 452.878318584 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.90519877676 6.0361032391 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.58838876751 93% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.333333333333 0.366273622748 91% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.25993883792 0.280924506359 93% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.174311926606 0.200843997647 87% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.103975535168 0.132149295362 79% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53180352411 2.79330140395 91% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 219.290929204 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.565749235474 0.48968727796 116% => OK
Word variations: 61.7039657791 55.4138127331 111% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6194690265 92% => OK
Sentence length: 17.2105263158 23.380412469 74% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.2162530144 59.4972553346 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.631578947 141.124799967 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2105263158 23.380412469 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.578947368421 0.674092028746 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 43.2044101078 51.4728631049 84% => OK
Elegance: 1.15789473684 1.64882698954 70% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.308010941213 0.391690518653 79% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.093030730892 0.123202303941 76% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.061845944765 0.077325440228 80% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.46016373143 0.547984918172 84% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.166964910393 0.149214159877 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110267891641 0.161403998019 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0807685266139 0.0892212321368 91% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.277720555621 0.385218514788 72% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0873941464794 0.0692045440612 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.213929432736 0.275328986314 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0746848611803 0.0653680567796 114% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.4325221239 105% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.30420353982 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 7.22455752212 111% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 13.5995575221 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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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: 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.