* Argument from poverty of the stimulus, a theory of language acquisition in linguistics

* Argument control, in linguistics

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* Argument ( complex analysis ), a function which returns the polar angle of a complex number

* Argument ( computer science ), a piece of data provided as input to a subroutine

* Argument ( literature ), a brief summary, often in prose, of a poem or section of a poem or other work

* Argument ( ship ), an Australian sloop wrecked in 1809

There had been pre-formal treatises on argument and dialectic, from authors such as Stephen Toulmin ( The Uses of Argument ), Nicholas Rescher ( Dialectics ), and van Eemeren and Grootendorst ( Pragma-dialectics ).

His eldest son Henry Dodwell the younger ( d. 1784 ) was the author of a pamphlet entitled Christianity not founded on Argument, to which a reply was published by his brother William Dodwell ( 1709 – 1785 ), who was concurrently engaged in a controversy with Conyers Middleton on the subject of miracles.

( 1984 ), " Ibn Sina's Fourth Ontological Argument for God's Existence ", The Muslim World 74 ( 3-4 ), 161 – 171.

* Argument ( computer science ), one of the pieces of data provided as input to a subroutine

* Argument ( complex analysis ), the angular component of a complex number or function

* " Matters for Argument " ( Review of G. Barwick, A Radical Tory ), The Age, 12 August 1995.

* “ One Strand in the Private Language Argument ”, Grazer Philosophische Studien 33 / 34 ( 1989 ), 285-303

* An Argument ... for the Truth of His Religion ( 1758 ), a sermon preached before the king

Argument from authority ( argumentum ad verecundiam ), also authoritative argument and appeal to authority, is a special type of inductive-reasoning argument that usually is presented in the form of a statistical syllogism, which argues the case from the general to the specific.

: Why It's Time to Stop the Stupidest Argument in America ( 2009 ), ISBN 0-312-54147-3 originally titled Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card — and Lose, ISBN 0-312-36733-3.

In The Argument Culture ( 1998 ), Deborah Tannen suggests that the dialogue of Western culture is characterized by a warlike atmosphere in which the winning side has truth ( like a trophy ).

* Bytwerk, Randall L. " The Argument for Genocide in Nazi Propaganda ," Quarterly Journal of Speech, 91 ( 2005 ), 37-62.

* Washington, D. C. International-( 3 )-Sir Ivor ( 1968 ), Karabas ( 1969 ), Argument ( 1980 )

To describe his vision of daily life, Toulmin introduced the concept of argument fields ; in The Uses of Argument ( 1958 ), Toulmin states that some aspects of arguments vary from field to field, and are hence called " field-dependent ," while other aspects of argument are the same throughout all fields, and are hence called " field-invariant.

In The Uses of Argument ( 1958 ), Toulmin proposed a layout containing six interrelated components for analyzing arguments:

To Edmund Law's Enquiry into the Ideas of Space, Time, Immensity, and Eternity ( 1734 ), Waterland contributed an appendix A Dissertation upon the Argument a priori for proving the Existence of a First Cause, in which, with reference to Clarke, he tried to dispose of the ontological argument in the supposed interests of orthodoxy.

His has several famous works including Annotations to Guoyu ( 國語注 ), Argument and Interpretation of Names ( 辯釋名 ).

The argument called the Master Argument appears to have been proposed from such principles as these: there is in fact a common contradiction between one another in these three propositions, each two being in contradiction to the third.

* Shows that some of the common criticisms of AP based on its relationship with numerology or the theological Design Argument are wrong.

Cebes realizes the relationship between the Cyclical Argument and Socrates ' Theory of Recollection.

In a lively exchange over what has come to be referred to as " The Chinese room Argument ", John Searle sought to refute the claim of proponents of what he calls ' Strong Artificial Intelligence ( AI )' that a computer program can be conscious, though he does agree with advocates of " Weak AI " that computer programs can be formatted to " simulate " conscious states.

To further demonstrate the limitations of the senses, Descartes proceeds with what is known as the Wax Argument.

Fellow reductionist Mark Johnston of Princeton rejects Parfit's constitutive notion of identity with what he calls an " Argument from Above ".

Superfluity of graphemes ( letters or characters ) is often an issue in spelling reform, which prompts the " Economic Argument "— significant cost savings in the production materials over time — as promulgated by George Bernard Shaw, although in modern times with computer systems changing rapidly and equipped to produce the scripts of a variety of languages this is now a bit far-fetched.

Superior Argument and Inferior Argument debate with each other over which of them can offer the best education.

Superior Argument sides with Justice and the gods, offering to prepare Pheidippides for an earnest life of discipline, typical of men who respect the old ways ; Inferior Argument, denying the existence of Justice, offers to prepare him for a life of ease and pleasure, typical of men who know how to talk their way out of trouble.

A midrash describes how Abraham understood this world to have a creator and director by comparing this world to " a house with a light in it ", what is now called the Argument from design.

* Argument form, aka Logical form or Test form-replacing the different words, or sentences, that make up the argument with letters, along the lines of algebra ; the letters represent logical variables

** Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father by Richard Rodriguez

The Argument was released by Dischord Records on October 16, 2001, along with the EP Furniture + 2, almost 4 years after the release of End Hits.

Another form of attack ( similar to the Argument from inconsistent revelations ) does not directly dispute the premises, but instead underlines the applicability of this argument to other historical religious figures, such as the Buddha and Muhammed, each of whom is revered in their faith as a wise and moral teacher, and each of whom made specific claims regarding their interaction with the divine.

Peirce proceeded in " A Neglected Argument " to express both deep satisfaction and deep dismay with his fellow pragmatists.

But this seems to be a " novelization " of the play, stitched together with bits from Twine ; Wilkins mentions the play in the Argument to his version of the story – so that Wilkins ' novel derives from the play, not the play from the novel.

On 2 April 2007 Garry Cobain posted a video onto his YouTube account of him arguing with a lady at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London about God entitled " the GOD WARS-An Argument I Had At Speaker's Corner ".

The Argument was released by Dischord Records on October 16, 2001, along with their EP, Furniture + 2, almost 4 years after the release of End Hits.

* The Argument Sketch – Palin pays Cleese to disagree with him.

* On 2 April 2007 Garry Cobain of The Future Sound of London posted a video onto his YouTube account of him arguing with a lady at Speakers Corner in London about God entitled " the GOD WARS – An Argument I Had At Speaker's Corner ".

The plan, code-named " Operation Argument ", was to use both American strategic air forces in Europe, with support by the Royal Air Force with night bombing raids to destroy or seriously cripple the German ability to produce combat aircraft.

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