Phrase Hound found 40 phrases and 13 compound words that contain argument. The most common are listed below. Open argument in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 40
- oral argumentA portion of a legal proceeding wherein the attorneys present their argument by speaking directly to the judge and answering the judge's questions.
- see an argumentTo believe an opinion has enough justification to sustain a debate about it, whether or not the opinion is ultimately true.
- opening argumentIn adversarial legal systems, a statement made by either party at the beginning of a trial or comparable factfinding proceeding, in which that party lays out their case, generally including the points of fact that they intend to …
- circular argumentA term often conflated with begging the question in philosophy.
- argument from designA teleological argument.
- argument formThe result of replacing parts of an argument with letters, leaving only logic words such as "if" and "for all" unreplaced.
- counter-argumentAlternative form of counterargument: An argument that is opposed to another argument.
- argument from silenceAn argument based on the absence of something being mentioned in documents as evidence.
- doomsday argumentA probabilistic argument that claims to predict the future population of the human species based on an estimation of the number of humans born to date.
- closing argumentThe final speech delivered by each side's attorney at the end of a trial, summarizing key evidence and urging the judge or jury to rule in their client's favor.
- argument miningA research area that aims to automatically extract and identify argumentative structures from text using computer programs.
- sticky bead argumentA thought experiment linking general relativity and gravitational waves, based on the idea of two beads sliding freely (but with a small amount of friction) on a rigid rod. As the wave passes over the rod, atomic forces hold the length of …
- violinist argumentAn argument in favour of a right to abortion that appeals to a thought experiment in which a person with a rare blood type is kidnapped and plugged into a famous unconscious violinist with a fatal kidney ailment; if the violinist is …
- Penrose-Lucas argumentAn argument based on Gödel's incompleteness theorem, suggesting that the human mind cannot be computed on a Turing machine that works on Peano arithmetic because the latter cannot see the truth value of its Gödel sentence, while a human …
- Quine-Putnam indispensability argumentAn argument for the existence of abstract mathematical objects such as numbers and sets, based on the fact that they are indispensable to the best scientific theories.
- private language argumentThe argument, famously made by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), that a private language cannot exist.
- argument instanceThe argument resulting when the blanks of an argument form are filled in with specific terms or statements.
- actual argumentSynonym of argument (“value or expression passed to a function”).
- argument formsplural of argument form: The result of replacing parts of an argument with letters, leaving only logic words such as "if" and "for all" unreplaced.
- non-argumentA flawed argument.
- position argumentThe claim that a writer or speaker makes about a controversial issue.
- diagonal argumentA proof developed by Georg Cantor to show that the set of real numbers is uncountably infinite.
- argument from ignoranceA fallacy where a proposition is assumed to be true because it has not yet been proved false, or vice versa.
- argument from illusionAn argument for the existence of sense-data, and thus a criticism of direct realism, according to which what we perceive (such as a stick that looks bent because it is viewed underwater) is distinct from the actual thing perceived (the …
- cosmological argumentA type of argument for the existence of God arguing that since every thing and event that begins at a point in time has a cause, there must be an uncaused first cause.
Compound words 13
- counterargumentAn argument that is opposed to another argument.
- argumentlessWithout arguments.
- pseudoargumentfallacious argument, incorrect argument
- argumenthoodThe property of being an argument.
- argumentiveBeing or presenting an argument or line of reasoning.
- midargumentA point in time during an argument.
- nonargumentAlternative form of non-argument: A flawed argument.
- multiargumentOf or relating to more than one argument.
- misargumentincorrect argument
- argumentableAdmitting of argument; arguable.