argument
IPA: ˈɑrgjʌmʌnt
noun
- (countable, also figuratively) A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
- (logic, philosophy) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
- (countable) A process of reasoning; argumentation.
- (countable) An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves.
- (countable) A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
- (by extension, humorous or euphemistic) Any dispute, altercation, or collision.
- (countable, linguistics) Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
- (countable, mathematics)
- The independent variable of a function.
- The phase of a complex number.
- (also astronomy) A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.
- (countable, programming)
- A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
- A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
- (countable, obsolete)
- A matter in question; a business in hand.
- The subject matter of an artistic representation, discourse, or writing; a theme or topic.
- (uncountable, archaic) Evidence, proof; (countable) an item of such evidence or proof.
verb
- (intransitive, obsolete, now nonstandard, non-native speakers' English) To put forward as an argument; to argue.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To adduce evidence, to provide proof.
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Examples of "argument" in Sentences
- The people controverted his argument.
- The issue is with the form of the argument.
- You should analyze the arguments of people.
- Indeed, the darwinian argument is the crux of the issue.
- I read the talk page, and the argument was not persuasive.
- The assertion of the argument stands as the claim of the argument.
- III. i.3 (276,7) [an absent argument] An _argument_ is used for the
- The issue of recruitment is central to the entire sectarian argument.
- The westernization issue is intensely dubious as an argument, I think.
- Next, he main argument is that banks cannot to become ‘To Big to Fail’.
- I am not willing to talk in circles in an interminable abstract argument.
- Can we get on to the substantive issues obscured by your ad homonym arguments
- One of their main argument is that an 8 team playoff would make the other bowl games meaningless.
- Their main argument is if regulations are too tight, the big banks will be less competitive internationally.
- My main argument is this: when an economy is starting from almost zero, high economic growth rates are easy to come by.
- Taylor's main argument is that our overspecialized colleges and universities are increasingly divorced from the hyper-connected world defined by "webs, not walls."
- McLaughlin (1984, 1995) calls this style of argumentation ˜argument by appeal to a false implied supervenience thesis™ ” or, for short, argument by appeal to a FIST.
- From this perspective, Russell's argument might seem akin to the ˜argument™ that calculus has eliminated the variable, because the word does not appear in the equations!
- The reason this argument is absurd is that it totally ignores the main argument for increasing out-of-pocket health care costs: that people use too much expensive health care when the marginal cost of care is very low.
- Concerntug the v* - trade* the force of my argument goes no farther than this; — that its Juppftfliou, by the ISrihfli government only, other nations continuing the trade as ufua\ % who would of cotirfe felSC on what we funender, would anfwer the purpofes of humanity, cither to the negroes tn Africa, or to thofe already in the Weft Indies; and I have quoted* in fupport of this opinion, the authoiitiesof men (naval commander! and others) who arc intimately acquainted with the trade, though no ways intended in its continuance; and I have not yet met with any evidence or argument* to Kivtttdate their testimony.
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