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.
Wise people said that many men many opinions. Regarding any issue different people might have different views like a coin which has two sides. Likely it is sometimes difficult to concur about an issue. So in that case the arguments don’t seem to be fruitful. But sometimes a debate can bring about a new direction in the thinking although there might not be congruence. Here the author claimed that when a person is forced to defend an idea against the doubts and contrasting views other then he can discover the value of the idea. In another words when the person become able to convince someone w...
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Sentence: In another words when the person become able to convince someone with opposing viewpoint, the argument is said to pass the test.
Description: A determiner/pronoun, singular is not usually followed by a noun, plural, common
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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 26 15
No. of Words: 465 350
No. of Characters: 2223 1500
No. of Different Words: 223 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.644 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.781 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.593 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 158 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 120 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.885 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.897 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.577 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.265 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.429 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.093 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5