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.
Language and verbalization of a position makes someone develop a more refined idea about their belief. People might have used to behave in a certain way without having formed a clear-cut reasoning to explain their behavior. Their actions might be a result of their habits, that have been ingrained through years of following the same steps. For example, a young child viewing a person being hurt by someone might step into the fight trying to protect their peer; but, if asked why they did that they might not be in a position to justify their actions. When this child is being asked to provide an argument to support their decision to get involved, and especially from someone with an opposing view, it is then that he/she will start to process the specific action and search for reasons why protecting innocent people is the right thing to do. Therefore, the claim is valid in supporting that trying to convince someone with an opposing viewpoint about one’s argument is the best way to put the argument in test.
First and foremost, being urged to defend a position against someone with a different opinion, an individual is able to understand this position more thoroughly. This is because when someone holds a view and acts in consistence with this view, it is likely that this person never had to peruse over the logic behind this position. Being challenged an individual is required to give reasons for his/her idea. When several of these reasons are not accepted by the opponent or counterarguments are being presented, this person has to bring more ideas into the table to support the position. This process, especially when it the result of a friendly conversation and not a verbal attack, results in a more thorough understanding of the multiple perspectives comprising the idea into question. Therefore, the person holding the position taking advantage of the feedback from the others will shape the initial position in a well-refined idea that defines him/her. Socrates, the ancient philosopher and teacher of Plato, was a fiery supporter of this position, encouraging his students to not be intimidated by contrasting views, but instead voluntarily seek them to test the validity of their arguments.
Another instantiation of this point of view is that when someone is not willing to expose his/her worldviews in contrasting views, he/she will be less likely to highly identify himself with this idea. Social psychology researchers have conducted a variety of experiments to test this theory. According to their findings, people whose opinions are being on purpose undermined through experimental manipulation are more eager to fight for them and assign to them higher value, in the sense of how central they are for them. Thus, challenging one’s beliefs or ideas can have as a result the other person to more passionately champion in favor of them and consider them more valuable.
In conclusion, trying to persuade someone about the legitimacy of an idea makes the person arguing more thoroughly fathom all its central aspects and more likely to value its significance.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 56, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'someone' must be used with a third-person verb: 'develops'.
Suggestion: develops
...rbalization of a position makes someone develop a more refined idea about their belief....
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, so, then, therefore, thus, well, as to, for example, in conclusion, in contrast, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 33.0505617978 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 78.0 58.6224719101 133% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2596.0 2235.4752809 116% => OK
No of words: 509.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10019646365 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74984508646 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77088844342 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 215.323595506 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.49115913556 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 804.6 704.065955056 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 53.9662960663 60.3974514979 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.222222222 118.986275619 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.2777777778 23.4991977007 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.21951772744 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => 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: 0.279494862107 0.243740707755 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0967737848374 0.0831039109588 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0825305576814 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17294146846 0.150359130593 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0465353958429 0.0667264976115 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 14.1392134831 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.8420337079 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 100.480337079 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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