Phrase Hound found 21 phrases and 3 compound words that contain arguments. The most common are listed below. Open arguments in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 21
- oral argumentsplural of oral argument: A portion of a legal proceeding wherein the attorneys present their argument by speaking directly to the judge and answering the judge's questions.
- closing argumentsplural of closing argument: The 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.
- opening argumentsplural of opening argument: In 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 …
- arguments from designplural of argument from design: A teleological argument.
- arguments from silenceplural of argument from silence: An argument based on the absence of something being mentioned in documents as evidence.
- arguments from ignoranceplural of argument from ignorance: A fallacy where a proposition is assumed to be true because it has not yet been proved false, or vice versa.
- ontological argumentsplural of ontological argument: A type of argument which maintains that the existence of God can be deduced from an analysis of the concept of God.
- teleological argumentsplural of teleological argument: A type of argument for the existence of God, stating that orderliness of nature is evidence of design, therefore also of a designer.
- actual argumentsplural of actual argument: Synonym of argument (“value or expression passed to a function”).
- position argumentsplural of position argument: The claim that a writer or speaker makes about a controversial issue.
- arguments to the purseplural of argument to the purse: The logical fallacy of concluding that a proposition is correct because the person advancing it is rich.
- circular argumentsplural of circular argument: A term often conflated with begging the question in philosophy.
- private language argumentsplural of private language argument: The argument, famously made by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), that a private language cannot exist.
- arguments from illusionplural of argument from illusion: An 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 …
- cosmological argumentsplural of cosmological argument: A 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.
- regress argumentsplural of regress argument: An argument derived from (an infinite sequence of) previously accepted propositions.
- regressive argumentsplural of regressive argument: An argument derived from (an infinite sequence of) previously accepted propositions.
- axiomatic argumentsplural of axiomatic argument: An argument or claim based on self-evident, fundamental, or universally accepted principles.
- etymological argumentsplural of etymological argument: Explanation and analysis—often considered controversial—of one or more concepts or linguistic terms by means of an exposition of their linguistic origins.
- homunculus argumentsplural of homunculus argument: An informal fallacy whereby a concept is explained in terms of the concept itself, recursively.
- arguments of periapsisplural of argument of periapsis: The angular distance between the ascending node of an object orbiting a primary body and its periapsis measured from that body.
Compound words 3
- counterargumentsplural of counterargument: An argument that is opposed to another argument.
- nonargumentsplural of nonargument: A flawed argument.
- misargumentsplural of misargument: incorrect argument