Word Finder - argument

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A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.

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A verbal dispute; a quarrel.

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A process of reasoning.

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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.

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The independent variable of a function.

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The phase of a complex number.

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A value, or reference to a value, passed to a function.

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

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A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.

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Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.

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The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends.

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The altitude is the argument of the refraction.

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The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.

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Matter for question; business in hand.

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(NNES) To put forward as an argument; to argue.

They'll get no argument from me.

His words stung, and any further argument died on her lips as she realized how serious he was.

The two men had carried on a fifteen-year argument on politics.

We were in bed and this pillow talk was quickly becoming an argument I didn't want to have.

There is a religious argument for immortality.

Jonathan gave him no argument, but he took the book with him.

The bastion for women's rights strongly defended her argument in front of the audience.

The design argument is available for the slightly bolder philosophy of intuitionalism as well as for empiricist theism.

Well, you want an argument," he added, "come on then."

When he pushed her ahead of him down the hill, she gave him no argument and continued without comment.

It is necessary and I don't want an argument.

If he couldn't win an argument any other way, he could always resort to demeaning dialog.

He couldn't win the argument any other way, so he had resorted to his irresistible charm.

He hated it when she won an argument.

It's just a little family argument!

He was unpleasantly struck, too, by the excessive contempt for others that he observed in Speranski, and by the diversity of lines of argument he used to support his opinions.

Of course the cosmological argument is rarely or never left to stand quite alone.

Even so he agreed without argument.

If you were anywhere near the lover that you are a politician we wouldn't be having this argument.

His prose writings, which include prefaces to the works of Kellgren and Lidner, and an eloquent argument against Rousseau's theory of the injurious influence of art and letters, rank with the best of the period.

The Argument to xii.

The same argument can be extended to other points of anatomical structure, and, what is of more consequence, it appears true of the brain.

To many persons it will appear paradoxical to ascribe the endowment of a soul to the inferior tribes in the creation, yet it is difficult to discover a valid argument that limits the possession of an immaterial principle to man.

Having learned from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this and always expects the law that he has learned to be fulfilled.

Then again, maybe he had given a lot of thought to her argument.

They were back to the original argument.

The teen continued to argue as to why she should meet Xander while Jessi neatly countered every argument.

This argument is most fully exhibited in a treatise entitled The Testimony of the King of Martyrs (1729).

He omits, however, to mention this, which is Zahn's strongest argument, II.

This failure was used as an argument in favour of imposing the famous Stamp Act.

On the other hand, he is full of cumbrous repetition, he lacks precision in argument and is prone to digression, his quotations from Scripture are often inappropriate, and he is greatly influenced by Jewish exegesis.

Though Eck claimed the victory in argument, the only result was to strengthen the Swiss in their memorial view of the Lord's Supper, and so to diverge them further from Luther.

The first of these (by no means the best) was Les Femmes de la revolution (1854), in which Michelet's natural and inimitable faculty of dithyrambic too often gives way to tedious and not very conclusive argument and preaching.

The line of inquiry has thus been directed to ascertaining what formative relation subsists among these species and genera, the last link of the argument reaching to the relation between man and the lower creatures preceding him in time.

Its main argument is that speech is a necessary outcome of that special arrangement of mental forces which distinguishes man, and more particularly from his habits of reflection.

Their literary and speculative qualities are indeed exceptionally brilliant; they are splendid in diction, elaborate in argument, cogent yet reverent, keen while fearless in criticism.

But if we pass from this criticism of form to the actual contents of the two books, we are bound to confess that they constitute a wonderfully cogent and persuasive theistic argument.

That argument may be described as a criticism of man and his world used as a basis for the construction of a reasoned idea of nature and being.

One of these, Summa de assumpto homine, is of a theological character, dealing with the humanity of Christ; the other, Summa de matrimonio, is a legal argument, to the effect that the essential fact in marriage is neither, as Gratian maintains, the copula, nor, as Peter Lombard, consent by verba de praesenti, but mutual traditio.

In the first part Spencer's argument rests on Mansel's Limits of Religious Thought and Hamilton's" philosophy of the conditioned "(and so ultimately on Kant), and tries to show that alike in scientific and religious thought the ultimate terms are" inconceivable "(not by him distinguished from" unimaginable ").

In support of the government he published, in 1698, An Argument for a Standing Army, followed in 1700 by a defence of William's war policy called The Two Great Questions considered, and a set of pamphlets on the Partition Treaty.

Defoe's next work was Jure divino, a long poetical argument in (bad) verse; and soon afterwards (1706) he began to be much employed in promoting the union with Scotland.

In the form of his poem he followed a Greek original; and the stuff out of which the texture of his philosophical argument is framed was derived from Greek science; but all that is of deep human and poetical meaning in the poem is his own.

No very strong argument can be based on the paucity of actual revolts.

His creed, and the whole gist of his argument, is expressed in a single sentence, "I am fully assured that God does not, and therefore that men ought not to, require any more of any man than this, to believe the Scripture to be God's word, and to endeavour to find the true sense of it, and to live according to it."

The great similarity between the salts of the ocean and the gaseous products of volcanic eruptions at the present time, rich in chlorides and sulphates of all kinds, is a strong argument for the ocean having been salt from the beginning.

The former is the basis of the negative part of his argument; the latter supplies him with all the positive account he has to give, and that is meagre enough.

Some modern scholars (among whom Harnack was formerly numbered, though he has modified his views on the point) feel a difficulty about the peremptory tone which Ignatius adopts towards Polycarp. There was some force in this argument when the Ignatian Epistles were dated about 140, as in that case Polycarp would have been an old and venerable man at the time.

His influence was that of saintliness rather than that of intellect."(b) A discussion of Harnack's second line of argument is impossible here.

From these primary axioms the whole body of necessary thoughts must be developed, and, as Socrates would say, the argument itself will indicate the path of the development.