Meaning of argument | Babel Free

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1. A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
   also, countable, figuratively
2. able to be put forward in argument. It is arguable that he would have been better to go. kan aangevoer word قابِل لِلجِدَل والنِّقاش спорно discutível obhajitelný vertretbar diskutabel συζητήσιμοςdiscutible vaieldav قابل استدلال؛ قابل بحث kiistanalainen défendable נִיתָן לְהִתוָוכֵּח עליו आलोच्य upitno vitatható bisa dikemukakan umdeilanlegur sostenibile 議論の余地がある 논증할 수 있는 ginčytinas strīdīgs; apstrīdams dapat dipertikaikan verdedigbaardiskutabeltsporny, dyskusyjny د بحث وړ، د استدلال وړ discu...
3. 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.
   also, countable, figuratively, uncountable
4. plot, story line
5. fond of arguing. argumenterend جَدَلي склонен да спори argumentativo svárlivý, vyhledávající spory streitlustig diskussionslysten εριστικόςdiscutidor, argumentador vaidlushimuline اهل بحث و جدل؛ استدلالی riidanhaluinen raisonneur וַכּחָן विवादप्रिय svadljiv vitakedvelő suka bertengkar þrætugjarn polemico 論争的な 따지기를 좋아하는 mėgstantis ginčytis, priešgyna strīdīgs; strīda- penuh dengan perdebatan twistziektrettekjær, kranglevoren lubiący dyskutować د استدلال او دلیل ویلو خلک refilão certăreţ любящи...
6. A process of reasoning; argumentation.
   countable
7. first-person singular present indicative of argumentar
8. A discussion in which the parties involved express disagreement with one another; a debate: philosophical arguments over the nature of existence.
9. 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
10. A course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating truth or falsehood: presented a strong argument for the arts in education.
11. A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
    countable
12. A summary or short statement of the plot or subject of a literary work.
13. Any dispute, altercation, or collision.
    broadly, countable, euphemistic, humorous, uncountable
14. Logic The minor premise in a syllogism.
    Logic
15. Any of the phrases that bear a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
    countable
16. Mathematics a. The independent variable of a function.
    Mathematics
17. The independent variable of a function.
    countable, uncountable
18. Computers A value used to evaluate a procedure or subroutine.
    Computers
19. The phase of a complex number.
    countable, uncountable
20. Linguistics A word, phrase, or clause in a semantic relation with a word or phrase and that helps complete the meaning of that word or phrase, such as a noun phrase that is the object of a verb. The clause that we go is an argument of the verb suggest in the sentence I suggest that we go.
    Linguistics
21. A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.
    also, countable, uncountable
22. a quarrel; altercation
23. A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
    countable, uncountable
24. A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
    countable, uncountable
25. A matter in question; a business in hand.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
26. The subject matter of an artistic representation, discourse, or writing; a theme or topic.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
27. Evidence, proof; (countable) an item of such evidence or proof.
    archaic, uncountable

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Examples

“There is no greater, at leaſt no more palpable and convincing Argument of the Exiſtence of a Deity than the admirable Art and Wiſdom that diſcovers itſelf in the make and conſtitution, the order and diſpoſition, the ends and uſes of all the parts and members of this ſtately fabrick of Heaven and Earth.”

“Says Plowdon [i.e., Edmund Plowden], the whale so caught belongs to the King and Queen, “because of its superior excellence.” And by the soundest commentators this has ever been held a cogent argument in such matters.”

“Consider the argument: / 15) I am hungry; therefore I am hungry. / Intuitively this should count as valid. But suppose we thought of the components of arguments as sentences, and suppose we imagine the context shifting between the utterance of the premise and the utterance of the conclusion. Suppose you are hungry and utter the premise, and I am not hungry and utter the conclusion. Then we would have a true premise and a false conclusion, so the argument would not be valid. Clearly we need to avoid such problems, and introducing the notion of a proposition, in the style of this section, is one way of doing so.”

“In ‘The Critic of Arguments’ (1892), [Charles Sanders] Peirce adopts a notion that is even closer to that of a propositional function. There he develops the concept of the ‘rhema’. He says the rhema is like a relative term, but it is not a term. It contains a copula, that is, when joined to the correct number of arguments it produces an assertion. For example, ‘__ is bought by __ from __ for __’ is a four-place rhema. Applying it to four objects a, b, c, and d produces the assertion that a is bought by b from c for d[…].”

“Indeed, I cannot commend my life; for I am conſcious to my ſelf of many failings: therein, I know alſo that a man by his converſation, may ſoon overthrow what by argument or perſwaſion he doth labour to faſten upon others for their good: […]”

“For if the Idea be not agreed on, betwixt the Speaker and Hearer, for which the Words ſtand, the Argument is not about Things, but Names.”

“I shuddered when I thought of the possible consequences of my consent; but I felt that there was some justice in his argument.”

“Meanwhile, the authoritarianism, which has turned left-liberalism into a movement for sneaks and prudes, was always going to play into the hands of the right. Free citizens have stopped listening to those who respond to the challenge of argument by screaming for the police to arrest the politically incorrect or for universities to ban speakers who depart from leftish orthodoxy.”

“If I would broach the veſſels of my loue, / And try the argument of hearts, by borrowing, / Men, and mens fortunes, could I frankely vſe / As I can bid thee ſpeake.”

“The neighbours got into an argument about the branches of the trees that extended over the fence.”

“Ar[mado]. Come hither, come hither: How did this argument begin. Boy. By ſaying that a Coſtard was broken in a ſhin, Then cald you for the Lenuoy [i.e. l'envoy]. Clow[ne; i.e., Costard]. True, and I for a Plantan, thus came your argument in, Then the boyes fat Lenuoy, the Gooſe that you bought, and he ended the market.”

“In argument with men a woman ever / Goes by the worſe, whatever be her cauſe.”

“Steve got in a physical argument with his neighbor and came away with a black eye.”

“While biking home, he got in an argument with the pavement.”

“D5131 has received extensive cab damage, having been in an argument with Class 37 D6855 at Inverness in August 1971 - one of two accidents that occurred there on August 20.”

“In numerous works over the past two decades, beginning with the pioneering work of Gruber (1965), Fillmore (1968a), and Jackendoff (1972), it has been argued that each Argument (i.e. Subject or Complement) of a Predicate bears a particular thematic role (alias theta-role, or θ-role to its Predicate), and that the set of thematic functions which Arguments can fulfil are drawn from a highly restricted, finite, universal set.”

“The altitude is the argument of the refraction.”

“Parameters are like labelled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks.”

“As neere as I could ſift him on that argument, On ſome apparent danger ſeene in him, Aimde at your highnes, no inueterate malice.”

“On, on, you Nobliſh Engliſh, / Whoſe blood is fet from Fathers of Warre-proofe: / Fathers, that like ſo many Alexanders, / Haue in theſe parts from Morne till Euen fought, / And ſheath’d their Swords, for lack of argument.”

“[I]n vttering the ſtuffe ye receiued of the one, in declaring the order ye tooke with the other, ye ſhall neuer lacke, neither matter, nor maner, what to write, nor how to write in this kinde of Argument.”

“Belike this ſhow imports the argument of the play.”

This show is perhaps the subject of the play.

“O know ſweet loue I alwaies write of you, And you and loue are ſtill my argument: […]”

“[N]earer view / Briſtl'd with upright beams innumerable / Of rigid Spears, and Helmets throng'd, and Shields / Various, with boaſtful Argument portraid, / The banded Powers of Satan haſting on / With furious expedition; […]”

“The abstract, or argument of the piece, is shortly as follows.”

“[F]or louing me, by my troth it is no addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her follie, for I will be horribly in loue with her, […]”

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