For whichever prompt you choose, make sure that you do all three of the following:
1. Briefly explain:
(A) your position (or the author’s position, depending on the question) (B) your (or their) argument for that position.
2. Research, and briefly explain a counter-argument to that argument / position (whatever you consider to be the strongest counter-argument against it).
3. Give your own reasoned analysis of this debate, in which you:
(A) state clearly which side you believe has the better argument, (B) explain why that side has the better argument, and
(C) explain what error the other side has made in their argument.
Also, for university requirements, you need to cite a minimum of 5 scholarly sources (e.g., peer-reviewed journal articles, books, etc.) It is often easiest to include these in the counter-argument, but depends on the details of your essay.
the prompt is over John Locke: His reasoning for concluding that the concept of “substance” is the concept of a
“something I know not what.”