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argument is one or more premises—sentences, statements, or propositions—directed towards arriving at a logical conclusion. The purpose of an argument...

arguments alone, independent of their topic and content. Informal logic is associated with informal fallacies, critical thinking, and argumentation theory...

(sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing...

teleological argument (from τέλος, telos, 'end, aim, goal'), also known as physico-theological argument, argument from design, or intelligent design argument, is...

Argument may refer to: The Argument (Fugazi album), 2001 The Argument (Grant Hart album), 2013 The Argument (film), a 2020 American film The Argument...

In philosophy of religion, a cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of God based on observational statements concerning the universe and...

('an argument to the person'), refers to when a speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather...

The doomsday argument (DA), or Carter catastrophe, is a probabilistic argument that aims to predict the total number of humans who will ever live. It...

Look up argument in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In logic and philosophy, an argument is an attempt to persuade someone of something, or give evidence...

The argument of periapsis (also called argument of perifocus or argument of pericenter), symbolized as ω (omega), is one of the orbital elements of an...

Argument mining, or argumentation mining, is a research area within the natural language processing field. The goal of argument mining is the automatic...

Wikiquote has quotations related to Argument from authority. An argument from authority (Latin: argumentum ab auctoritate, also called an appeal to authority...

In philosophy of mind, the knowledge argument (also known as Mary's Room, Mary the Colour Scientist, or Mary the super-scientist) is a thought experiment...

In complex analysis, the argument principle (or Cauchy's argument principle) is a theorem relating the difference between the number of zeros and poles...

argument is a deductive philosophical argument, made from an ontological basis, that is advanced in support of the existence of God. Such arguments tend...

In celestial mechanics, the argument of latitude ( u {\displaystyle u} ) is an angular parameter that defines the position of a body moving along a Kepler...

religion and theology. A wide variety of arguments for and against the existence of God (with the same or similar arguments also generally being used when talking...

Master argument for the classical master argument related to the problem of future contingents. The master argument is George Berkeley's argument that mind-independent...

A musical argument is a means of creating tension through the relation of expressive content and musical form: Traditional dialectal music is representational:...

The homunculus argument is an informal fallacy whereby a concept is explained in terms of the concept itself, recursively, without first defining or explaining...

An argument map or argument diagram is a visual representation of the structure of an argument. An argument map typically includes all the key components...

The Chinese room argument holds that a computer executing a program cannot have a mind, understanding, or consciousness, regardless of how intelligently...

The Kalam cosmological argument is a modern formulation of the cosmological argument for the existence of God. It is named after the Kalam (medieval Islamic...

two, or three arguments. A predicate and its arguments form a predicate–argument structure. The discussion of predicates and arguments is associated most...

Isaac Newton's rotating bucket argument (also known as Newton's bucket) is a thought experiment that was designed to demonstrate that true rotational motion...

The argument from illusion is an argument for the existence of sense-data. It is posed as a criticism of direct realism. Naturally occurring illusions...

A political argument is an instance of a logical argument applied to politics. Political arguments are used by academics, media pundits, candidates for...

A closing argument, summation, or summing up is the concluding statement of each party's counsel reiterating the important arguments for the trier of fact...

A heuristic argument is an argument that reasons from the value of a method or principle that has been shown experimentally (especially through trial-and-error)...

argumentum ad absurdum, (Latin for "argument to absurdity") apagogical argument, or proof by contradiction, is the form of argument that attempts to establish...

Argument to moderation (Latin: argumentum ad temperantiam)—also known as the false compromise, argument from middle ground, fallacy of gray, middle ground...

Oral argument at the appellate level accompanies written briefs, which also advance the argument of each party in the legal dispute. Oral arguments can...

In mathematics, an argument of a function is a value provided to obtain the function's result. It is also called an independent variable. For example,...

The dream argument is the postulation that the act of dreaming provides preliminary evidence that the senses trusted to distinguish reality from illusion...

The Argument Web is a large-scale Web of interconnected arguments created by individuals as they express their opinions and interact with the opinions...

use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument that may appear to be well-reasoned if unnoticed. The term was introduced...

In a slippery-slope argument, a course of action is rejected because the slippery slope advocate believes it will lead to a chain reaction resulting in...

In mathematics (particularly in complex analysis), the argument of a complex number z, denoted arg(z), is the angle between the positive real axis and...

"Argument Clinic" is a sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman. The sketch was originally broadcast as part...

diagonal argument, in mathematics, is a technique employed in proofs. The following theorems are notable examples: Cantor's diagonal argument (the earliest)...

An argument by example (also known as argument from example) is an argument in which a claim is supported by providing examples. Most conclusions drawn...

Das Argument: Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften (English: The Argument: Journal for Philosophy and Social Sciences) is a bimonthly...

The lazy argument or idle argument (Ancient Greek: ἀργὸς λόγος) is an attempt to undermine the philosophical doctrine of fatalism by demonstrating that...

conditions an argument is valid. According to the semantic approach, an argument is valid if there is no possible interpretation of the argument whereby its...

The Sołtan argument is an astrophysical theory outlined in 1982 by Polish astronomer Andrzej Sołtan [pl]. It maintains that if quasars were powered by...

Cantor's diagonal argument (among various similar names) is a mathematical proof that there are infinite sets which cannot be put into one-to-one correspondence...

problem of evil, the argument from inconsistent revelations, the rejection of concepts that cannot be falsified, and the argument from nonbelief. Nonbelievers...

Argument from fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false. It...

Argumentation theory is the interdisciplinary study of how conclusions can be supported or undermined by premises through logical reasoning. With historical...

argument may refer to: Pigeonhole principle Combinatorial proof This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Counting argument....

Benatar's asymmetry argument for antinatalism is an argument based on the difference between harms and benefits viewed in two scenarios — when the person...

The "nothing to hide" argument is an argument which states that an individual has no reason to fear or oppose surveillance or breach of privacy, unless...

The Meinongian argument is a type of ontological argument or an "a priori argument" that seeks to prove the existence of God. This is through an assertion...

access consciousness but no phenomenal consciousness. Philosophical zombie arguments are used against forms of physicalism and in defense of the hard problem...

"evil demon". In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed the simulation argument suggesting that if a civilization becomes capable of creating conscious...

The argument from reason is a transcendental argument against metaphysical naturalism and for the existence of God (or at least a supernatural being that...

programming, a parameter, a.k.a. formal argument, is a variable that represents an argument, a.k.a. actual argument, a.k.a. actual parameter, to a function...

javelin argument, credited to Lucretius, is an ancient logical argument that the universe, or cosmological space, must be infinite. The javelin argument was...

The evolutionary argument against naturalism (EAAN) is a philosophical argument asserting a problem with believing both evolution and philosophical naturalism...

Arguendo is a Latin legal term meaning for the sake of argument. "Assuming, arguendo, that ..." and similar phrases are used in courtroom settings, academic...

In mathematics, the Eckmann–Hilton argument (or Eckmann–Hilton principle or Eckmann–Hilton theorem) is an argument about two unital magma structures on...

In computational complexity theory, the padding argument is a tool to conditionally prove that if some complexity classes are equal, then some other bigger...

computational complexity theory and cryptography, averaging argument is a standard argument for proving theorems. It usually allows us to convert probabilistic...

Semantic argument is a type of argument in which one fixes the meaning of a term in order to support their argument. Semantic arguments are commonly used...

profession, argument in the alternative is a strategy in which a lawyer advances several competing (and possibly mutually exclusive) arguments in order to...

The infant industry argument is an economic rationale for trade protectionism. The core of the argument is that nascent industries often do not have the...

In argumentation theory, an argumentation scheme or argument scheme is a template that represents a common type of argument used in ordinary conversation...

named-parameter arguments, named arguments or keyword arguments refer to a computer language's support for function calls to clearly associate each argument with...

In philosophy and argumentation, a reason is a consideration that counts in favor of a conclusion, action, attitude or fact, or that explains why something...

Argument from analogy is a special type of inductive argument, where perceived similarities are used as a basis to infer some further similarity that...

"modal argument," or the "clear and distinct perception argument," and secondly the "indivisibility" or "divisibility" argument. The argument is distinguished...

The 861 argument is a statutory argument used by tax protesters in the United States, which interprets a portion of the Internal Revenue Code as invalidating...

The argument from nonbelief is a philosophical argument for the nonexistence of God that asserts an inconsistency between God's existence and a world...

The Argument is the sixth and final studio album by American post-hardcore band Fugazi, released on October 16, 2001, by Dischord Records. It was recorded...

Rogerian argument (or Rogerian rhetoric) is a rhetorical and conflict resolution strategy based on empathizing with others, seeking common ground and mutual...

A tone argument (also called tone policing) is a type of ad hominem aimed at the tone of an argument instead of its factual or logical content in order...

and visualisation of arguments and debates. In the 1980s and 1990s, philosophical theories of arguments in general, and argumentation theory in particular...

censorship, when miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole even when the comparison made by the argument is appropriate. Godwin has criticized the...

A transcendental argument is a kind of deductive argument that appeals to the necessary conditions that make experience and knowledge possible. Transcendental...

In philosophy, the Rietdijk–Putnam argument, named after C. Wim Rietdijk [nl] and Hilary Putnam, uses 20th-century findings in physics – specifically in...

In the C++ programming language, argument-dependent lookup (ADL), or argument-dependent name lookup, applies to the lookup of an unqualified function name...

The argument from degrees, also known as the degrees of perfection argument or the henological argument, is an argument for the existence of God first...

The open-question argument is a philosophical argument put forward by British philosopher G. E. Moore in §13 of Principia Ethica (1903), to refute the...

Premises are true or false statements that serve as the starting points of arguments by presenting reasons to justify or refute standpoints. For example, the...

Drive-By Argument was an indietronica band from Ayr, Scotland. The quintet released their self-titled début album Drive-By Argument on 19 May 2008. The...

In computer programming, a default argument is an argument to a function that a programmer is not required to specify. In most programming languages,...

Argument from ignorance (Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), or appeal to ignorance, is an informal fallacy where something is claimed to be true or false...

The argument from morality is an argument for the existence of God. Arguments from morality tend to be based on moral normativity or moral order. Arguments...

In argumentation, an objection is a reason arguing against a premise, argument, or conclusion. Definitions of objection vary in whether an objection is...

refers to a variety of methods of reasoning in which the conclusion of an argument is supported not with deductive certainty, but at best with some degree...

The Transcendental Argument for the existence of God (TAG) is an argument that attempts to prove the existence of God by appealing to the necessary conditions...

The hole argument was the argument, developed by German-born physicist Albert Einstein, that general covariance was not applicable to the equations of...

The wax argument or the sheet of wax example is a thought experiment that René Descartes created in the second of his Meditations on First Philosophy....

cryptography, the hybrid argument is a proof technique used to show that two distributions are computationally indistinguishable. Hybrid arguments had their origin...

programming portal Command-line argument parsing refers to methods used in a programming language to parse command-line arguments. A command-line option or...

The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism is a 2013 book by the English philosopher and humanist A. C. Grayling, in which he counters...

problem of evil as having been rebutted by various defenses. The evidential arguments remain discussed among contemporary philosophers. In the context of the...

In argumentation theory, an argumentum ad populum (Latin for 'appeal to the people') is an informal fallacy that asserts a claim is true, good, or correct...

use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument. All forms of human communication can contain fallacies. Because of their...

Such an argument is called a valid argument, for example: all men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal. For valid arguments, it is...

fields, an argumentation framework is a way to deal with contentious information and draw conclusions from it using formalized arguments. In an abstract...

In analytic philosophy, the paradigm case argument (PCA) is an argument which is applied as a rebuttal to the claim that certain concepts, such as free...

The replaceability argument, or the logic of the larder, is a philosophical argument against vegetarianism. It holds that consuming animal products can...

when an argument's premises assume the truth of the conclusion. Historically, begging the question refers to a fault in a dialectical argument in which...

In mathematics, especially in category theory, Quillen’s small object argument, when applicable, constructs a factorization of a morphism in a functorial...

infinite regress argument is an argument against a theory based on the fact that this theory leads to an infinite regress. For such an argument to be successful...

The Quine–Putnam indispensability argument is an argument in the philosophy of mathematics for the existence of abstract mathematical objects such as...

The trademark argument is an a priori argument for the existence of God developed by the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. The name...

Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking is a 2023 non-fiction book by Mehdi Hasan. Win Every Argument is 336-page non-fiction...

To make an argument from silence (Latin: argumentum ex silentio) is to express a conclusion that is based on the absence of statements in historical documents...

The Christological argument is the argument for the existence of God, which holds that if certain claims about Jesus are valid, then one should accept...

defect in an argument whereby the premises are just as much in need of proof or evidence as the conclusion. As a consequence, the argument becomes a matter...

Argumental (working title Whose Side Are You On?) is a British improvised comedy panel game hosted originally by John Sergeant and later Sean Lock, alongside...

In mathematics, the arguments of the maxima (abbreviated arg max or argmax) and arguments of the minima (abbreviated arg min or argmin) are the input...

The private language argument is a family of considerations, developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations (PI), aiming to show that...

In group theory, a branch of mathematics, Frattini's argument is an important lemma in the structure theory of finite groups. It is named after Giovanni...

Argument from incredulity, also known as argument from personal incredulity, appeal to common sense, or the divine fallacy, is a fallacy in informal logic...

Argument is a 1979 book by the philosopher William Lane Craig, in which the author offers a contemporary defense of the Kalām cosmological argument and...

motte-and-bailey fallacy (named after the motte-and-bailey castle) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy where an arguer conflates two positions that share...

The Consequence Argument is a philosophical argument for the incompatibility of free will and determinism. The argument was most notably introduced by...

which one making an argument fails to address the issue in question. Often an opposing counsel can legally object to such arguments by declaring them irrelevant...

slingshot argument is one of a group of arguments claiming to show that all true sentences stand for the same thing. This type of argument was dubbed...

In argumentation theory, a term (or notion) is that part of a statement in an argument which refers to a specific thing. A term is usually, but not always...

The Argument is a 2020 American comedy-drama film, directed by Robert Schwartzman, from a screenplay by Zac Stanford. It stars Maggie Q, Danny Pudi, Cleopatra...

Ad nauseam is a Latin term used to describe an argument or a discussion that has been extended to the figurative point of nausea. For example, "this has...

An Argument with Myself is an extended play by Swedish indie pop musician Jens Lekman, released on 19 September 2011 on Secretly Canadian. On 19 March...

The Penrose–Lucas argument is a logical argument partially based on Kurt Gödel's first incompleteness theorem. In 1931, Gödel proved that every effectively...

Probabilistic argument may refer to: Probabilistic argument, any argument involving probability theory Probabilistic method, a method of non-constructive...

are: the argument from "first mover"; the argument from universal causation; the argument from contingency; the argument from degree; the argument from final...

Argumentum ad baculum (Latin for "argument to the cudgel" or "appeal to the stick") is a type of argument made when one attempts to appeal to force to...

also known as the broccoli test, broccoli argument, broccoli hypothetical or broccoli horrible, was an argument used by those opposed to healthcare reform...

ontological proof is a formal argument by the mathematician Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) for the existence of God. The argument is in a line of development that...

to a formal fallacy. While "the logical argument is a non sequitur" is synonymous with "the logical argument is invalid", the term non sequitur typically...

constructor is a constructor that takes no arguments. Also known as a 0-argument constructor, no-argument constructor, parameterless constructor or default...

The argument from free will, also called the paradox of free will or theological fatalism, contends that omniscience and free will are incompatible and...

The argument from beauty (also the aesthetic argument) is an argument for the existence of a realm of immaterial ideas or, most commonly, for the existence...

proof: The circular argument, in which the proof of some proposition presupposes the truth of that very proposition The regressive argument, in which each...

The argument from desire is an argument for the existence of the immortality of the soul. The best-known defender of the argument is the Christian writer...

Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers is a 2001 book by BBC journalists David Edmonds and John Eidinow...

In linguistics, differential argument marking (DAM) is the phenomenon of a language's encoding a single grammatical function (e.g. subject or object) in...

A polar concept argument is a type of argument that posits the understanding of one concept, from the mere understanding of its polar opposite. A well-known...

its attribution to Fermi, and alternative terms like the "Hart–Tipler argument" or "Tsiolkovsky–Fermi–Viewing–Hart paradox" have been proposed. According...

his first edition of Political Justice (1793), William Godwin included arguments favoring the possibility of "earthly immortality" (what would now be called...

The Argument (With Annotations) is a 2017 Canadian-British short experimental drama film written, directed, and edited by video artist Daniel Cockburn...

of loaded language – often passing as folk wisdom – intended to end an argument and bypass cognitive dissonance with a cliché rather than a point. Some...

argument without responding to the substance of the argument. Some authors have also described the fallacy as the act of "ridicul[ing]" an argument as...

An argument in literature is a brief summary, often in prose, of a poem or section of a poem or other work. It is often appended to the beginning of each...

A polysyllogism is a complex argument (also known as chain arguments of which there are four kinds: polysyllogisms, sorites, epicheirema, and dilemmas)...

Practical arguments are a logical structure used to determine the validity or dependencies of a claim made in natural-language arguments. An argument can be...

The Argument is an American online media company and opinion-focused web magazine known for publishing commentary, analysis, and reported essays on politics...

tollendo ponens (MTP), Latin for "mode that affirms by denying") is a valid argument form which is a syllogism having a disjunctive statement for one of its...

Electric Arguments is the third studio album by the Fireman, released on 24 November 2008 on the duo's website. It was announced on 29 September 2008...

The argument from miracles is an argument for the existence of God that begins by asserting that there are kinds of possible events the best explanation...

parts of formal logic, serving as the logical structure of valid arguments. If an argument with true premises follows a rule of inference then the conclusion...

The argument from consciousness is an argument for the existence of God that claims characteristics of human consciousness (such as qualia) cannot be explained...

also known as argumentum ad consequentiam (Latin for "argument to the consequence"), is an argument that concludes a hypothesis (typically a belief) to...

In combinatorial game theory, the strategy-stealing argument is a general argument that shows, for many two-player games, that the second player cannot...

command-line argument or parameter is an item of information provided to a program when it is started. A program can have many command-line arguments that identify...

An argumentum ad crumenam argument, also known as an argument to the purse, is the informal fallacy of drawing conclusions based on the speaker's financial...

‹ The template Infobox play is being considered for merging. › The Argument is a play by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros. Originally premiering Off-Broadway...

The explanatory indispensability argument is an argument in the philosophy of mathematics for the existence of mathematical objects. It claims that rationally...

In philosophy, Weyl's tile argument, introduced by Hermann Weyl in 1949, is an argument against the notion that physical space is "discrete", as if composed...

The argument from marginal cases (also known as the argument from species overlap) is a philosophical argument within animal rights theory regarding the...

which the main argument ('subject') of an intransitive verb, the agent argument ('subject') of a transitive verb, and the patient argument ('direct object')...

The logic of argumentation (LA) is a formalised description of the ways in which humans reason and argue about propositions. It is used, for example,...

The Third Argument (Serbian: Treći argument) is a Serbian graphic novel based on the works of Serbian writer Milorad Pavić, with script by Zoran Stefanović...

abortion debate are logical arguments that can be made either in support of or in opposition to abortion. The philosophical arguments in the abortion debate...

In computer science, a charging argument is used to compare the output of an optimization algorithm to an optimal solution. It is typically used to show...

critical density needed to prevent the Big Crunch (the "Dicke coincidences" argument). The most recent measurements may suggest that the observed density of...

Of the many and varied argument forms that can possibly be constructed, only very few are valid argument forms. In order to evaluate these forms, statements...

The argument from love is an argument for the existence of God that suggests the depth, complexity, and universality of love point to a transcendent source...

Argument About Basia (Polish: Awantura o Basię) is a Polish novel by Kornel Makuszyński, written in 1936, but released one year later. The book tells the...

of ad hominem arguments which attack the speaker rather than addressing the claims, but they are a distinct class of fallacious argument, and both are...

invalidate someone else's argument on the basis that the same idea was promoted or practised by Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party. Arguments can be termed reductio...

In epistemology, the regress argument is the argument that any proposition requires a justification. However, any justification itself requires support...

attempts to overwhelm an opponent by presenting an excessive number of arguments, without regard for their accuracy or strength, with a rapidity that makes...

The Argument Interchange Format (AIF) is an international effort to develop a representational mechanism for exchanging argument resources between research...

discredit the opponent's argument by attacking the opponent's own personal behaviour and actions as being inconsistent with their argument, so that the opponent...

are a type of incorrect argument in natural language. The source of the error is not necessarily due to the form of the argument, as is the case for formal...

An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity is a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift defending Christianity, and in particular, Anglicanism, against contemporary...

In computing and mathematics, the function atan2 is the 2-argument arctangent. By definition, θ = atan2 ⁡ ( y , x ) {\displaystyle \theta =\operatorname...

In logic, specifically in deductive reasoning, an argument is valid if and only if it takes a form that makes it impossible for the premises to be true...

The argument from poor design, also known as the dysteleological argument, is an argument against the assumption of the existence of a creator God, based...

presumes that a speaker's argument is false or invalid and then explains why the speaker made that argument (even if said argument is actually correct) by...

is not a consequence of the end-to-end argument. It is the success of packets that make the end-to-end argument relevant." No arbitrarily reliable data...

complex number, while the angle from the positive real axis is called the argument of the complex number. The complex numbers of absolute value one form the...

revived and transformed in the early modern period by Immanuel Kant's arguments that our knowledge of reality is completely based on mental structures:...

Sport Your Argument is a weekly sports talk radio show based in Washington, D.C., hosted by Matt Potter and Casey Angel, broadcast on Yahoo Sports Radio...

evidence cited is actually no different than the assertion itself. An argument that actually contains premises that are all the same as the assertion...

incorrect because of being traditional. Appeal to novelty Argument from authority Argument to moderation Common sense Conservatism Herd mentality Inductive...

Being Right: 38 Ways to Win an Argument (also The Art of Controversy, or Eristic Dialectic: The Art of Winning an Argument; German: Eristische Dialektik:...

whereby a macro may be declared to accept a varying number of arguments. Variable-argument macros were introduced in 1999 in the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99)...

The argument from religious experience is an argument for the existence of God. It holds that the best explanation for religious experiences is that they...

The swamping argument is an objection against Darwinism made by Fleeming Jenkin. He asserted that an accidentally-appearing profitable variety cannot be...

The Talmud uses many types of logical arguments. Some of the most common arguments and terms are listed here. The term chazakah (Hebrew: חזקה — literally...

published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1971. Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to...

appeal to nature is a rhetorical technique for presenting and proposing the argument that "a thing is good because it is 'natural', or bad because it is 'unnatural'...

Topical logic is the logic of topical argument, a branch of rhetoric developed in the Late Antique period from earlier works, such as Aristotle's Topics...

form in a given language. The logical form of an argument is called the argument form of the argument. The importance of the concept of form to logic was...

Argument–deduction–proof distinctions originated with logic itself. Naturally, the terminology evolved. An argument, more fully a premise–conclusion argument...

analyzing rhetorical arguments. The Toulmin model of argumentation, a diagram containing six interrelated components used for analyzing arguments, and published...

explanandum under a generalization from which it may be derived in a deductive argument. For example, “All gases expand when heated; this gas was heated; therefore...

The Jane Austen Argument is an Australian musical duo from Melbourne. Formed in 2010 by Tom Dickins (vocals, piano, ukulele) and Jen Kingwell (piano, vocals...

'strife' in Greek). No matter how one attempts to refute eristic arguments, the argument is designed so that any means of refutation will fail. For example...

Specious reasoning is a form of argument or analysis that relies on lies, misdirection, or misinterpreted information to make its point. Assertions made...

An etymological fallacy is an argument of equivocation, arguing that a word is defined by its etymology, and that its customary usage is therefore incorrect...

Demonstration of the Truthful or Proof of the Veracious, among others) is a formal argument for proving the existence of God introduced by the Islamic philosopher...

an argument as untrue or absurd. The dismissal is made by stating or reiterating that the argument is absurd, without providing further argumentation. This...

The beech argument (German: Buchenargument) is a now mostly outdated argument in Indo-European studies that is in favour of placing the Indo-European...

or the horse laugh) is an informal fallacy which presents an opponent's argument as absurd, ridiculous, or humorous, and therefore not worthy of serious...

Lewis's trilemma is an apologetic argument traditionally used to argue for the divinity of Jesus by postulating that the only alternatives are that he...

antinatalists believe human reproduction is problematic. The most common arguments for antinatalism include that life entails inevitable suffering, death...

of chaos, strife, and discord) refers to an argument that aims to successfully dispute another's argument, rather than searching for truth. According...

conduct. Logic is the study of correct reasoning and explores how good arguments can be distinguished from bad ones. Metaphysics examines the most general...

functions with multiple vector-valued arguments, with the functions being linear maps with respect to each argument. It involves concepts such as matrices...

basis in law and are generally rooted in conspiracy theories. Pseudolegal arguments deviate significantly from most conventional understandings of law and...

the argument produced significant literature, and works such as The Matrix franchise are considered inspired by Putnam's argument. Putnam's argument is...

mathematical proofs and philosophical arguments in print publications, to indicate that the proof or the argument is complete. The phrase quod erat demonstrandum...

In mathematics, the hypergeometric function of a matrix argument is a generalization of the classical hypergeometric series. It is a function defined by...

and argument is often unclear and many attorneys will infuse at least a little argumentation into their opening (often prefacing borderline arguments with...

referred to as an evolutionary debunking argument or evolutionary debunking thesis, is a philosophical argument which holds that, because humans (like all...

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standard output. The function accepts a format C-string argument and a variable number of value arguments that the function serializes per the format string...

disagreement hierarchy in a 2008 essay "How to Disagree", putting types of argument into a seven-point hierarchy and observing that "If moving up the disagreement...

The watchmaker analogy or watchmaker argument is a teleological argument, an argument for the existence of God. In broad terms, the watchmaker analogy...

necessarily agreed to by the person who is asked the question does the argument containing them become fallacious. Hence, the same question may be loaded...

Probabilistic argumentation refers to different formal frameworks pertaining to probabilistic logic. All share the idea that qualitative aspects can be...

the attention away from the topic that is being discussed. This type of argument is called a "quibble" or "quillet". Trivial objections are a special case...

or sometimes "arccsch" or "arccosech") The hyperbolic functions take an argument called a hyperbolic angle. The magnitude of a hyperbolic angle is the area...

Closing Argument (born April 4, 2002, in Florida) is a retired Thoroughbred racehorse. The son of Successful Appeal won the 2005 Holy Bull Stakes and finished...

Appeal to motive is a pattern of argument which consists in challenging a thesis by calling into question the motives of its proposer. It can be considered...

an appeal to emotion, and therefore may become a logical fallacy. Art, Argument, and Advocacy (2002) argued that the appeal substitutes emotion for reason...

be consumed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang. This "diproton argument" is disputed by other physicists, who calculate that as long as the increase...

In decision theory, economics, and probability theory, the Dutch book arguments are a set of results showing that agents must satisfy the axioms of rational...

συλλογισμός, syllogismos, 'conclusion, inference') is a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two...

Theory of Forms and in the process brings to bear five arguments against the theory. Argument 1. (130e–131e) If particular things come to partake of the...

and one of the a posteriori arguments for this is the argument from design or the teleological argument. The argument is that the existence of God can...

The significand (also coefficient, sometimes argument, or more ambiguously mantissa, fraction, or characteristic) is the first (left) part of a number...

In classical logic, a hypothetical syllogism is a valid argument form, a deductive syllogism with a conditional statement for one or both of its premises...

written: The one-sidedness fallacy does not make an argument invalid. It may not even make the argument unsound. The fallacy consists in persuading readers...

Hypothesis" and their arguments, presenting seven arguments against the hypothesis as put forward by "Wells and his predecessors": "Arguments from silence" are...

In reasoning and argument mapping, a counterargument is an objection to an objection. A counterargument can be used to rebut an objection to a premise...

The self-referencing doomsday argument rebuttal is an attempt to refute the doomsday argument (that there is a credible link between the brevity of the...

The incompatible-properties argument is the idea that no description of God is consistent with reality. For example, if one takes the definition of God...

requires statistical evidence. Misuse of anecdotal evidence in the form of argument from anecdote is an informal fallacy and is sometimes referred to as the...

\neg Q} (therefore, not-P implies not-Q) Arguments of this form are invalid. Informally, this means that arguments of this form do not give good reason to...

Court has agreed to hear and has not yet decided. Future argument dates are in parentheses; arguments in these cases have been scheduled, but have not, and...

considerably. Many notable theologians and philosophers have developed arguments for and against the existence of God. Atheism rejects the belief in any...

consequential relationship between two or more events Reason (argument), a premise in support of an argument, for what reason or purpose Grounding (metaphysics)...

Male expendability, the relative expendability argument, or the expendable male hypothesis, is the idea that the lives of male humans are of less concern...

a sharp criticism of the church and foreshadowed further 14th century arguments that pitted royalist national sovereignty against the principles of papal...

function. An adjunct is not an argument (nor is it a predicative expression), and an argument is not an adjunct. The argument–adjunct distinction is central...

In general relativity, the sticky bead argument is a simple thought experiment designed to show that gravitational radiation is indeed predicted by general...

tolerance, creation, and cooperation. The most prominent argument for nihilism is the argument from queerness. J. L. Mackie argues that there are no objective...

In Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion in the Policy Process, published in 1989, Italian political scientist Giandomenico Majone contrasts a vision of policy...

school. He was most notable for logic innovations, including his master argument formulated in response to Aristotle's discussion of future contingents...

sand from which grains are removed individually. One might construct the argument from the following premises: 1,000,000 grains of sand is a heap of sand...

fortiori (literally "argument from the stronger [reason]") (UK: /ˈɑː fɔːrtiˈoʊri/, US: /ˈeɪ fɔːrʃiˈɔːraɪ/) is a form of argumentation that draws upon existing...

that arguments from uncertainty fail because the mere fact that one might be mistaken in finding certain arguments persuasive (for example, arguments for...

Irreducible complexity (IC) is the argument that certain biological systems with multiple interacting parts would not function if one of the parts were...

Tamir that presents a liberal argument in support of national particularism. Liberal nationalism presents an argument that nationalism can work under...

Introduction to the End of an Argument / Intifada - Speaking for Oneself... Speaking for Others (Arabic: مقدمة لنهائيات جدال Transliteration: Muqadimmah...

implication elimination, or affirming the antecedent, is a deductive argument form and rule of inference. It can be summarized as "P implies Q. P is...

part of rhetorical strategies (e.g., in politics), or may be used in argumentation inadvertently. The expression was popularized in 1807 by the English...

which deny that knowledge or absolute certainty are possible. Various arguments for and against agnosticism are discussed in the academic literature....

of an (explicit or implied) argument, and is considered by some philosophers an informal fallacy. A poisoned-well "argument" has the following form: Unfavorable...

In programming, a tag is an argument to a subroutine that determines other arguments passed to it, which is used as a way to pass indefinite number of...

philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), a French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and theologian. This argument posits that...

study of how humans can use formal reasoning to produce logically valid arguments and true conclusions. Reasoning may be subdivided into forms of logical...

explanation" (Lipton, 2004). For instance, one argument commonly used—the "miracle argument" or "no miracles argument"—starts out by observing that scientific...

against it. They will go over their side of the argument without considering the alternative arguments. Self-propaganda is a form of propaganda and indoctrination...

phrase used to describe pseudoscience or bad science. It describes an argument or explanation that purports to be scientific but uses faulty reasoning...

A false premise is an incorrect proposition that forms the basis of an argument or syllogism. Since the premise (proposition, or assumption) is not correct...

epistemological argument formulated by G. E. Moore against philosophical skepticism about the external world and in support of common sense. The argument takes...

corresponding conditional of an argument (or derivation) is a material conditional whose antecedent is the conjunction of the argument's (or derivation's) premises...

proven, e.g., the assertion that "unicorns exist", by using the following argument: We know that "Not all lemons are yellow", as it has been assumed to be...

The 50 Year Argument is a documentary film by Martin Scorsese and co-directed by David Tedeschi about the history and influence of the New York Review...

{\displaystyle M={\frac {1}{N}}\sum _{i=1}^{N}\sigma _{i}.} A bogus argument analogous to the argument in the last section now establishes that the average magnetization...

alignment is the grammatical relationship between arguments—specifically, between the two arguments (in English, subject and object) of transitive verbs...

No Room for Argument is an album by American jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney, recorded in 2000 and released on the Stretch label. The AllMusic review by Paula...

transformation, is a function that always returns the value that was used as its argument, unchanged. That is, when f {\displaystyle f} is the identity function...

characterized by the manipulation of the recipient's emotions in order to win an argument, especially in the absence of factual evidence. This kind of appeal to...

translating a function that takes multiple arguments into a sequence of families of functions, each taking a single argument. In the prototypical example, one...

order, and on December 5, the court agreed to hear oral arguments. Trump attended the oral arguments at the Supreme Court on April 1, 2026, which no sitting...

Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-free Arguments is a textbook on logical fallacies by T. Edward Damer that has been used for many...

the Ottoman Empire's successor state, the Republic of Turkey. Borrowing arguments used by the CUP to justify its actions, Armenian genocide denial rests...

unqualified, unidentified, biased, or fabricated source in support of an argument. One particular case of misattribution is the Matthew effect. A quotation...

identical for identical arguments (no variation with local static variables, non-local variables, mutable reference arguments or input streams, i.e.,...

logical form and inferential patterns as the premises and conclusions of arguments. Linguists investigate propositions as the meanings of declarative sentences...

to put them into. This seemingly obvious statement, a type of counting argument, can be used to demonstrate possibly unexpected results. For example, given...

holds two-week oral argument sessions each month from October through April. Each side has thirty minutes to present its argument (the court may choose...

is preferred when the argument ⁠ x {\displaystyle x} ⁠ is a complicated expression. It is called exponential because its argument can be seen as an exponent...

Persuasive writing is a form of written argument designed to convince, motivate, or sway readers toward a specific point of view or opinion on a given...

The Argument is the fourth and final solo studio album from Grant Hart, formerly of the band Hüsker Dü. The album was released in 2013, four years before...

function of indefinite arity, i.e., one which accepts a variable number of arguments. Support for variadic functions differs widely among programming languages...

and New Testament studies. Habermas is the creator of the "minimal facts argument," an apologetic method that uses widely accepted assumptions about Jesus...

2025). "When Americans bite their tongues: The Argument polls free speech attitudes". The Argument. Retrieved September 21, 2025. "The Economist/YouGov...

promotes an oblique argument of a verb to the role of subject; the underlying subject may then be expressed as an oblique argument. A given language may...

2008). Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-Free Arguments. Cengage Learning. pp. 121–123. ISBN 978-0-495-09506-4. Fischer, D. H...

necessity and sufficiency) is a formal fallacy (or an invalid form of argument) that is committed when, in the context of an indicative conditional statement...

list indicates that the function consumes no arguments. The run-time environment actually passes two arguments (typed int and char *[]), but this implementation...

of origins or fallacy of virtue) is a fallacy of irrelevance in which arguments or information are dismissed or validated based solely on their source...

Neither one nor many is a spiritual and philosophical argument that truly existing entities are not merely singular (since they always comprise multiple...

needed] He could neither fully conceptualize nor articulate Socrates's arguments.[citation needed] He admired Socrates for his intelligence, patriotism...

proposition by baldly asserting that it is "just how it is" distorts the argument by opting out of it entirely: the claimant declares an issue to be intrinsic...

adds, "the 'demon-argument' is not an argument at all. Descartes does not need another argument at this stage: the dream argument has already shown the...

sequitur insofar as the action has no causal relation to the "horribles". The argument relies solely on the emotional impact of the "horribles" (an appeal to...

(or a similar emotion) has nothing to do with the actual point of the argument, or 2) when the emotional appeal is exaggerated or excessive compared to...

Dispositio is the system used for the organization of arguments in the context of Western classical rhetoric. The word is Latin, and can be translated...

started to happen) – a form of slippery slope argument. When this outcome is actually unlikely (the argument is fallacious), it has also been called the...

Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations is a 1977 book by the philosopher Michael Walzer. Published by Basic Books, it is...

such system can demonstrate its own consistency. Employing a diagonal argument, Gödel's incompleteness theorems were among the first of several closely...

perfect solution fallacy is a related informal fallacy that occurs when an argument assumes that a perfect solution exists or that a solution should be rejected...

patient case, is a grammatical case used in some languages to mark the argument of an intransitive verb, but not used with transitive verbs. It is generally...

common parlance, the "apple of discord" is the core, kernel, or crux of an argument, or a small matter that could lead to a bigger dispute. In the Eixample...

Mark B. Feldman filed an amicus brief supporting the government. Oral argument took place on January 17, 2023. Lisa Blatt argued on behalf of Halkbank...

representational, a view called intentionalism or representationalism. This argument is sometimes extended to claim that there are no purely qualitative aspects...

according to which each object only inhabits one possible world. Common arguments for modal realism refer to their theoretical usefulness for modal reasoning...

condition is that an adversely affected party provide satisfactory evidence or argument that the decree should not take effect (i.e. the decree takes effect unless...

continuation-passing style takes an extra argument: an explicit continuation; i.e., a function of one argument. When the CPS function has computed its result...

themselves to humankind. Theologians use various forms of analysis and argument (experiential, philosophical, ethnographic, historical, and others) to...

Tax protesters in the United States advance a number of conspiracy arguments asserting that Congress, the courts and various agencies within the federal...

Argument was an Australian sloop of some 8 tons, built in Sydney and registered on 8 October 1800. In March 1809 Argument, Experiment and Hazard left...

and arguments of a court case. Bench memos are used by the judge as a reference during preparation for trial, the hearing of lawyers' arguments, and...

relative dévissage which is well-suited to certain kinds of inductive arguments. They used this technique to give a new criterion for a module to be flat...

out by AMPS had been pointed out earlier by Samir Mathur who used the argument in favour of the fuzzball proposal. The use of a firewall to resolve this...

verb argument around which sentences "revolve" in a given language. This usually means the following: If the verb has more than zero arguments, then...

The Yamato period (大和時代, Yamato-jidai) is the period of Japanese history when the imperial court ruled from modern-day Nara Prefecture, then known as Yamato...

been using mirror arguments to justify his government's violent policies against the Palestinians ... Netanyahu’s mirror arguments have nothing to do...

at: Cornell LLI Oral arguments Audio of oral arguments, oyez.org, transcripts accompany the audio Transcript of First Oral Argument in Roe v. Wade 410 U...

In string theory, the Brandenberger–Vafa mechanism is an argument for why the observable universe has one macroscopic timelike and three macroscopic spacelike...

A thesis statement is a statement of one's core argument, the main idea(s), and/or a concise summary of an essay, research paper, etc. It is usually expressed...

Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The court rejected the argument by the prison officials that the "deliberate indifference" standard, which...

tradition. Christian theologians use biblical exegesis, rational analysis and argument. Theologians may undertake the study of Christian theology for a variety...

loader executes the specified interpreter program, passing to it as an argument the path that was initially used when attempting to run the script, so...

refutation') or missing the point, is the informal fallacy of presenting an argument whose conclusion fails to address the issue in question. It falls into...

known as argument by pigheadedness, is a deductive fallacy of circularity where the person in question simply refuses to believe the argument, ignoring...

javelin used as a thrown weapon in the Roman legions Javelin argument, a logical argument supporting the infinite size of the universe Javelin (DC Comics)...

the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive...

fallacies of relevance Arguments Ad nauseam Sealioning Argument from anecdote Argument from incredulity Argument from silence Argument to moderation Argumentum...

defense of ethical non-naturalism against ethical naturalism, Moore's argument is concerned with the semantic and metaphysical underpinnings of ethics...

American Catholic Philosophical Association. Free Choice: A Self-Referential Argument, with Olaf Tollefsen and Germain Grisez, Notre Dame: University of Notre...

"mode that by denying denies") and denying the consequent, is a deductive argument form and a rule of inference. Modus tollens is a mixed hypothetical syllogism...

Unix-like operating system. The term Unix domain socket refers to the domain argument value AF_UNIX passed to the system call that creates the socket. The same...

Stoic logic focuses on highly intentional reasoning through propositions, arguments, and the differentiation between truth and falsehood. Philosophical discourse...

abstract generalization of many diagonal arguments in mathematics and logic, such as Cantor's diagonal argument, Cantor's theorem, Russell's paradox, Gödel's...

better at remembering our thoughts about an argument during the argument, rather than the actual argument itself. Two types of cognitive responses exist:...

(the angle per unit time) or the temporal rate of change of the phase argument of a sinusoidal waveform or sine function (for example, in oscillations...

Tax protesters in the United States have advanced a number of arguments asserting that the assessment and collection of the federal income tax violates...

Argument (7 February 1977 – after 1996) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In his early racing career he showed consistent form and was placed...

The essence of this inductive fallacy lies on the overestimation of an argument based on insufficiently large samples under an implied margin of error...

knowledge, represented by a function e {\displaystyle e} that takes as an argument a set of hypotheses and gives as a result the corresponding set of manifestations...

It is committed when one makes an illicit use of Leibniz's law in an argument. Leibniz's law states that if A and B are the same object, then A and B...

first two arguments must be xmm/ymm/zmm vector register arguments, while the last argument may be either a vector register or memory argument. Under AVX-512...

Argumentation and Advocacy is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Taylor & Francis, edited by Beth Innocenti of University of Kansas...

between status quo and new inventions, an appeal to novelty argument is not in itself a valid argument. The fallacy may take two forms: overestimating the new...

the command is used without specifying the new user id as a command line argument, it defaults to using the superuser account (user id 0) of the system....

violated. To support the idea of the minimal state, Nozick presents an argument that illustrates how the minimalist state arises naturally from a Lockean...

best-known philosophical work of British idealist J. M. E. McTaggart. In the argument, first published as a journal article in Mind in 1908, McTaggart argues...

have developed an argument for dualism dubbed the "argument from reason". They credit C.S. Lewis with first bringing the argument to light in his book...

function that takes a function as argument) that returns some fixed point (a value that is mapped to itself) of its argument function, if one exists. Formally...

of arguments and counter-arguments) through formalisation of dialectic. These attempts include pre-formal and partially formal treatises on argument and...

speak") is a discussion or conference, especially one designed to end an argument or hostilities between two groups of people. As a verb, the term can be...

a fallacious argument formulated by Fred Hoyle against Earth-based abiogenesis and in favor of panspermia. The junkyard tornado argument has been taken...

The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice is a 2021 non-fiction book by Shon Faye on the subject of transgender liberation in the United Kingdom....

Intelligent design (ID) is a pseudoscientific argument for the existence of God, presented by its proponents as "an evidence-based scientific theory about...

was established by that point in specific reference to Morton's original argument. Under Henry VII, John Morton was made Archbishop of Canterbury in 1486...

the "tu quoque" pattern, which is a subtype of the ad hominem style of argument. The communication intent is often to distract from the content of a topic...

Kialo is an online structured debate platform with argument maps in the form of debate trees. It is a collaborative reasoning tool for thoughtful discussion...

right to my opinion") is an informal fallacy in which someone dismisses arguments against their position by asserting that they have a right to hold their...

decision, Chief Justice John Roberts ruled against the federal government's argument that the discovery rule determined the statute of limitations for filing...

heroin, than someone who has never used marijuana. False equivalence arguments are often used in journalism and in politics, where flaws of one politician...

between unrelated things Affirming the consequent – Type of fallacious argument (logical fallacy) Association fallacy – Formal fallacy Cargo cult – New...

Chronological snobbery is an argument that the thinking, art, or science of an earlier time is inherently inferior to that of the present, simply by virtue...

will in general. Religions vary greatly in their response to the standard argument against free will and thus might appeal to any number of responses to the...

cogito" is used to refer to an argument from it. In the Meditations, Descartes phrases the conclusion of the argument as "that the proposition, I am,...

of their language without innate language-specific cognitive biases. Arguments from the poverty of the stimulus are used as evidence for universal grammar...

horses are the same color. There is no actual contradiction, as these arguments have a crucial flaw that makes them incorrect. This example was originally...

encounter the personified arguments Superior (Right) and Inferior (Wrong), associates of Socrates. Superior Argument and Inferior Argument debate with each other...

statement logically follows from one or more statements. A valid logical argument is one in which the conclusion is entailed by the premises, because the...

false) and relations between propositions, including the construction of arguments based on them. Compound propositions are formed by connecting propositions...

they also cannot be demonstrated directly in an argument – a more nuanced approach is needed. Arguments for qualia generally come in the form of thought...

make changes in the law, without anything approaching full briefing and argument." Chief Justice John Roberts also wrote a dissent to the order to grant...

in red. Two common arguments supporting substance theory are the argument from grammar and the argument from conception. The argument from grammar uses...

the five canons of rhetoric, is the method used for the discovery of arguments in Western rhetoric and comes from the Latin word, meaning "invention"...

restaurant in Carlton. Gatto claimed it was in self-defence following a heated argument. Veniamin was born to Greek Cypriot immigrant parents, and was raised in...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Proof most often refers to: Proof (truth), argument or sufficient evidence for the truth of a proposition Alcohol proof, a...

during the socialist calculation debate in the early 20th century. Early arguments against the utilization of central economic planning for a socialist economy...

Commonly-cited arguments for and against the prohibition of drugs include the following: Supporters of prohibition claim that drug laws have a successful...

Schwartzman directed the films Dreamland (2016), The Unicorn (2018), and The Argument (2020), acted in his cousin Sofia Coppola's projects Lick the Star (1998)...

distinctions. Persian, he claims, has but one word that covers all of these. Arguments of this nature fill page after page of the Muhakamat. Below is an extract...

programming paradigm in which function definitions do not identify the arguments (or "points") on which they operate. Instead the definitions merely compose...

G. Thomas Goodnight is an American argumentation and rhetorical scholar. Goodnight was born in 1948 in Houston, Texas. He obtained a Bachelor of Science...

sentient beings into existence. Central to this view is his asymmetry argument, which holds that the absence of pain is good even if no one benefits from...

absolute values, or moduli, and the angle or argument of the product is the sum of the two angles, or arguments. In particular, multiplication by a complex...

can know that God exists as a basic belief, requiring no argument. He developed this argument in two different ways: firstly, in God and Other Minds (1967)...

Descartes offers proofs of a benevolent God (the trademark argument and the ontological argument respectively). Descartes has faith in the account of reality...

In logical argument and mathematical proof, the therefore sign, ∴, is generally used before a logical consequence, such as the conclusion of a syllogism...

source software for collective structured argumentation and argument analysis via argumentation graphs or argument maps in which the type of connections can...

Los Angeles, 569 U.S. 641 (2013) is available from: CourtListener Google Scholar Internet Archive (docket files) Justia Oyez (oral argument audio) v t e...

however, when the compliment is sincere, and directly related to the argument. Example: "You are a stunningly beautiful girl – you should become a model...

generally given credit for, including being the first to present an epsilon argument. In his 1821 book Cours d'analyse, Augustin-Louis Cauchy discussed variable...

As with any logical fallacy, identifying that the reasoning behind an argument is flawed does not necessarily imply that the resulting conclusion is false...

analysis, interpretation, evaluation, criticism and construction of argumentation." This definition reflects what had been implicit in their practice...

theorems do not lead to any valid argument against mechanism. This consensus that Gödelian anti-mechanist arguments are doomed to failure is laid out...

the court rejected his first argument. In his second argument on failure to accommodate, the court rejected the argument, saying that the employer does...

appeal to loyalty is a logical fallacy committed when the premise of an argument uses a perceived need for loyalty of some sort to distract from the issue...

fact that this trend is revealed in multiple sources tends to undermine arguments that it is because of reduced reporting or changes in investigatory or...

view about a subject but wishing to arrive at the truth through reasoned argument. Dialectic resembles debate, but the concept excludes subjective elements...

also provides heuristics for understanding, discovering, and developing arguments for particular situations. Aristotle defined rhetoric as "the faculty...

in February 1988 at the family's home in Rochester, Minnesota after an argument with his father. In the early evening of February 18, 1988, Olmsted County...

is a predicate that takes only individual(s) constants or variables as argument(s). Compare second-order predicate and higher-order predicate. This is...

philosophy and linguistics to distinguish types of knowledge, justification, or argument by their reliance on experience. Roughly speaking, a proposition is known...

The expression has been used to illustrate problems such as the regress argument in epistemology. Early variants of the saying do not always have explicit...

envelopes in the switching argument. The simple resolution depended on a particular interpretation of what the writer of the argument is trying to calculate:...

it remains a territory of the former nation, but Cuba has rejected this argument and claims jurisdiction over it. During a 1970s state visit to East Germany...

This fallacy has the following argument form: Either P or Q is true. Q is frightening. Therefore, P is true. The argument is invalid. The appeal to emotion...

soundness can refer to either a property of arguments or a property of formal deductive systems. An argument is sound if (and only if) it is both valid...

Natural slavery (or Aristotelian slavery) is the argument set forth in Aristotle's Politics that some people are slaves by nature, while others are slaves...

Tax protester arguments are arguments made by people, primarily in the United States, who contend that tax laws are unconstitutional or otherwise invalid...

dilemmas are usually discussed in terms of deductive arguments, but they can also occur as defeasible arguments. The human liability to commit false dilemmas...

from 2014 to 2024. Craig has updated and defended the Kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God. He has also published work where he argues in...

The floodgates principle, or the floodgates argument, is a legal principle which is sometimes applied by judges to restrict or limit the right to make...

Araucaria is an argument mapping software tool developed in 2001 by Chris Reed and Glenn Rowe, in the Argumentation Research Group at the School of Computing...

New Testament scholarship ignores the non-existence hypothesis and its arguments, as the question of historicity was generally settled in scholarship in...

Oliver Heaviside, the value of which is zero for negative arguments and one for positive arguments. Different conventions concerning the value H(0) are in...

shouting match in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A shouting match is an argument or debate characterized by the loud volume or intensity of the participants...

friends in the hours leading up to his death. Socrates explores various arguments for the soul's immortality with the Pythagorean philosophers Simmias and...

enough genetic markers are studied simultaneously. Edwards saw Lewontin's argument as based on a political stance, denying biological differences to argue...

logical structure of arguments. This makes it possible to use the precise rules of formal logic to assess whether these arguments are correct. It can also...

predicate-argument structures. They can function as arguments, as adjuncts, or as predicative expressions. That is, embedded clauses can be an argument of a...

especially appropriate for a sinusoidal function, since its value at any argument t {\displaystyle t} then can be expressed as φ ( t ) {\displaystyle \varphi...

Led by Richard Cobden and John Bright, it won a wide hearing for its argument that free trade would lead to a more equitable society, making essential...

actual parameters, a.k.a. arguments, to match. Different programming languages provide different conventions for passing arguments. In some languages, such...

studies, the salmon problem or salmon argument (also known by the German term Lachsargument) is an outdated argument in favour of placing the Indo-European...

concept concerning the law and its application, specifically a form of argument based on deductive reasoning and seeking to establish whether a specified...

the process of analyzing available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments to reach sound conclusions or informed choices. It involves recognizing...

horizontal bar extending the square root sign over the argument can indicate the extent of the argument. Obtaining the absolute value of a number is a unary...

between { and }, separated by ⋄ or new-lines, wherein ⍺ denotes the left argument and ⍵ the right, and ∇ denotes recursion (function self-reference). For...

Necessity. Kripke put forth what has come to be known as "the modal argument" (or "argument from rigidity"). Consider the name Aristotle and the descriptions...

Proponents of organ sales claim that this line of argument confuses the kidney with the whole person. Another argument against organ markets is that they will give...

In mathematics, the argument shift method is a method for constructing functions in involution with respect to Poisson–Lie brackets, introduced by Mishchenko...

what is being described. In law, puffery is usually invoked as a defense argument: it identifies general praising speech, typically produced by a seller...

appl) is a grammatical voice that promotes an oblique argument of a verb to the core object argument. It is generally considered a valency-increasing morpheme...

The Riemann zeta function ζ {\displaystyle \zeta } is a function whose argument may be any complex number other than 1, and whose values are also complex...

that they are considered to share. Logically, it is an inference or an argument from one particular to another particular, as opposed to deduction, induction...

simply that some internal structures do not generate intelligence. The argument is related to John Searle's Chinese room.[citation needed][original research...

what does not affect themselves. Contextually, it is often used in an argument or dispute as a remark to refute, reject or discourage other peoples' concerns...

mulieres, qua probatur eas homines non esse (English translation: A new argument against women, in which it is demonstrated that they are not human beings)...

speaker's statements in the most rational way possible and, in the case of any argument, considering its best, strongest possible interpretation. In its narrowest...

different from the logical fallacy. The latter usually applies to a form of argument that does not comply with the valid inference rules of logic, whereas the...

reverse decisions that are "manifestly unreasonable." He disposed of most arguments by saying the trial court was not so "manifestly unreasonable." In dissent...

who cut other people with knives. Therefore, surgeons are criminals. The argument is committing the fallacy of accident because it erroneously generalizes...

Christian apologetics, and this argument in particular, have been criticized. Philosopher John Beversluis described Lewis's arguments as "textually careless and...

second argument is executed or evaluated only if the first argument does not suffice to determine the value of the expression: when the first argument of...

1)) or in the hyperbolic number plane, the hyperbolic angle measure (argument to the hyperbolic functions) is indeed the arc length of a hyperbolic arc...

question Gertrude's sanity before concluding his argument. Forrest Bowman began his closing argument in an openly critical manner as he attacked the decision...

man argument used by antifeminists in which a distorted or fabricated version of feminism is used in an attempt to mock or dismiss feminist arguments. A...

‹ The template Infobox play is being considered for merging. › The Argument is a 2016 play by the Scottish writer William Boyd. Its premiere production...

probability of seeing at least one 5 when throwing a pair of dice? An erroneous argument goes as follows: The first die shows a 5 with probability 1/6, and the...

the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance to make a more general argument against overspecialization. In the book, he argues that range – defined...

mathematics ever since. Originally, the term variable was used primarily for the argument of a function, in which case its value could be thought of as varying within...

today's Arizona v. City of San Francisco oral argument: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2021/20-1775_2c8f.pdf" (Tweet)....

prosecution "rests". Other parts of the defense include the opening and closing arguments and the cross-examination during the prosecution phase. Since a defense...

Q_{C}=L/a_{LC}-(P_{W}/P_{C})Q_{W}\geq L/a_{LC}-(a_{LW}/a_{LC})Q_{W}} . A symmetric argument holds for Foreign. Therefore, by trading and specializing in a good for...

techniques are classified as logical fallacies, because propaganda uses arguments which may have psychological effects but which are logically invalid....

disagreements about whether there are ethical dilemmas or not. Certain arguments for or against their existence may apply only to some types but not to...

shooting and killing his son Marvin Jr. on April 1, 1984, following an argument at their home. Gay was born the third of 13 surviving children to George...

Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez, 372 U.S. 144 (1963) is available from: Internet Archive (docket files) Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio)...

of "what makes a good argument?" can be a source of myside bias that influences the way a person formulates their own arguments. The study investigated...

often a verb, taking no arguments. Valency refers to how many and what kinds of arguments a predicate licenses—i.e. what arguments the predicate selects...

phrases, take arguments (see argument (linguistics)). Broadly, arguments can be divided into two types: internal or external. Internal arguments are those...

Operation Argument, after the war dubbed Big Week, was a sequence of raids by the United States Army Air Forces and RAF Bomber Command from 20 to 25 February...

"innate facility" for acquiring language. The main argument given in favor of the LAD was the argument from the poverty of the stimulus, which argues that...

resignation or quiet acceptance. Arguments for and against existential nihilism are discussed in the academic discourse. Arguments from a cosmological perspective...

the rich and capitalism for the poor" is a classical political-economic argument asserting that, in advanced capitalist societies, state policies assure...

the set of natural numbers. Cantor's argument for this theorem is presented with one small change. This argument can be improved by using a definition...

various controversies surrounding or involving the BBC. It includes arguments over political bias and impartiality, editorial mistakes and disputed...

Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care by Joan C. Tronto is an American book published in 1993, contributing to the debate over the...

of the 6-year protection. The Supreme Court unanimously rejected that argument, arguing that “actual knowledge” meant that the person read and could recall...

words, a bilinear form is a function B : V × V → K that is linear in each argument separately: B(u + v, w) = B(u, w) + B(v, w)     and     B(λu, v) = λB(u...

University of Kansas—conducted the state's defense in his first appellate argument. In December 1952, the Justice Department filed an amicus curiae ("friend...

Transcript of Oral Argument, p. 5. Transcript of Oral Argument, p. 8. Transcript of Oral Argument, p. 10. Transcript of Oral Argument, p. 34. Transcript...

debate-themed party game using cards. The objective of the game is to use Argument Cards to win a mock presidential debate between other potential candidates...

says he devised the memorable line used by Johnnie Cochran in the closing argument, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." Uelmen is currently a professor...

in the name of the faith, from the Crusades to modern terrorism. The arguments against Christianity include claims that it is a faith of violence, corruption...

adding) ambiguity in arguments because it can lead to incorrect conclusions and can be used to deliberately conceal bad arguments. For example, a politician...

solution to this dilemma stands. One famous ancient argument regarding fatalism was the so-called Idle Argument. It argues that if something is fated, then it...

specific form of hand-waving whereby one attempts to advance an argument by giving an argument loaded with jargon and obscure results or by marking it as obvious...

Absolute (philosophy) – Philosophical or theological concept Argument from beauty – Argument for the existence of God Attractor – Limiting set in dynamical...

is an argument for viewing national patent systems as a cloak for protectionist trade policies at a national level. Two strands of this argument exist:...

In 2005, Critical Thinking Skills: Developing Effective Analysis and Argument was published. The book aimed to help readers "develop an understanding...

New York Times. Wilhelm, Colin (June 12, 2017). "High court upholds bank argument on debt collection, as Gorsuch writes first opinion". Politico. Text of...

injunction against enforcement) and state court (reiterating the preemption argument, and asserting state law and procedural due process claims).[citation needed]...

of all things", and he controversially would strive to "make the weaker argument the stronger". The arts of the sophists were known as sophistry and gained...

pessimistic induction, also known as the pessimistic meta-induction, is an argument that seeks to rebut scientific realism, particularly the scientific realist's...

the dark night paradox or Olbers and Cheseaux's paradox, is a historical argument in astrophysics and physical cosmology that says the darkness of the night...

infinities. The inequality was later stated more simply in his diagonal argument in 1891. Cantor defined cardinality in terms of bijective functions: two...

semantic content of their arguments. Predicates select their arguments, which means they limit the semantic content of their arguments. A distinction may sometimes...

component of the Pseudolaw Memeplex". Courts have uniformly rejected arguments relying on the strawman theory, which is recognized in law as a scam;...