Writing Feedback / "being forced to defend an idea" - my GRE essay [2]

TOPIC : 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 value of an idea, can be evaluated by the applicability or impacts of it on the public and for achieving that wide impression, the idea should have the capacity to fulfill different types of perspectives and answer the doubts and challenges that may be brought by those viewpoints.

A comprehensive thought, should consider its view from different angles, so that its strengths and weaknesses can be highlighted. But the point is, It is impossible for an individual to look on a subject with that much delicacy and covers all the possible challenges by its own. On the other hand there is a high risk of bias and inclinations so the new born idea, needed to be cleared from all those by being force of defending itself through the contrasting views. So, to establish a valuable idea, it should be presented to the public in order to be questioned and challenged. The novel view cannot convert to a valuable one, if it could not defend itself against different viewpoints. These argues help it to be polished and burnished.

Different experiences in the history show that, as long as an idea was established by one or a small group and it is decided to be applied on a broader range, like a community, without those polishes, the disastrous events happened. One of these samples is Marxism, introduced by Karl Marx that affected many countries like Soviet union and eastern Europe. After a while this ideology was questioned by its own audiences, but since the idea have became so much further than a simple concept and it have changed to a political base for those countries, it was not easy and it was so late to challenge that political foundation. So all those catastrophes just happen because of not considering the others contrasting views and ideas.

In sum, it is so obvious that "The all know the all", So it seems that as much as an idea opens itself to the others and having the dare to be questioned, it will have more chance to grow and being developed.

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Writing Feedback / Originality is not such a concept that can be categorized in the first group or the other [4]

Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before

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this is my essay on this topic: would you mind to rate?
Originality is not such a concept that can be categorized in the first group or the other. Arguing about the fact that, whether an idea is original If and Just If that was not thought before, Or how significant the new combination of the old ideas should be, to be named Original is not simple and that much clear to discuss and I believe it is also not that much black and white.

The word Original itself, refers to s.th new, something comes from a pure creativity and novelty. The output of that novel creativity can be varied in both of those extremes, no matter it is old or new, adding an inspiration will cause originality. The argument will be on how much inspiration should be added to create something Original?

In fact, it doesn't seems possible that an idea arises, without any background or previous attempts. And Of course everything in this world is a chain of progresses and it is developed in a consecutive order. So if Originality interpreted as something never thought before, nothing in this world can be labeled Original. On the other hand, all the amalgamations of previous thoughts in a new way, cannot be considered as original. It seems that a considerable Jump or progress needed, to create s.th new. We can assume that the minimum amount of the novelty is depended on the public ability of creativity. The original idea is the one that is much further from the public wisdom accessibility. So when it is presented to the public it is going to seems novel to the others. No matter if it is a new way of looking to the previous matters or something that no one thought before.

In sum, I believe that evaluating the level of originality is so depended on how far the new idea is from the borders of the community imagination and it is not that much related to how much old that.