Definition of Argument

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Argument

Proof; evidence.

A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it.

A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation.

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.

Matter for question; business in hand.

The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction.

The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends.

To make an argument; to argue.

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Argument Quotations

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
George Carlin

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
Steven Wright

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
Will Rogers

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
Thomas Paine

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock

Argument Translations

argument in French is argument
argument in German is argument, Argument {n}
argument in Italian is questione, argomento, dimostrazione

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