In philosophy and logic, an argument is an attempt to persuade someone of something, or give evidence or reasons for accepting a particular conclusion.

Orwell's will requested that no biography of him be written, and his wife Sonia Brownell repelled every attempt by those who tried to persuade her to let them write about him.

The Orthodox Jewish community made every attempt to persuade Rabbi Zweigenhaft to remain, even offering to fund his weekly journey from Switzerland.

Santa Anna agreed that, if given safe passage into Mexico, he would attempt to persuade those in power to sell California and New Mexico to the United States.

Determining if the customer is likely to return to reclaim an item is a subjective decision, and wily customers may attempt to persuade the pawnshop owner that the item in question is important to them (" that necklace belonged to my grandmother, so I will certainly return for it "), and they will claim that they will return to recover it.

Rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the facility of speakers or writers who attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.

This proposal was an unsuccessful attempt to persuade the Southern states not to secede from the Union.

* Catherine of Siena visits Pope Gregory XI in Avignon to attempt to persuade him to make peace with Florence and move the Papacy back to Rome.

Since it is to any player's advantage to eliminate failure cards from his opponents ' hands, a large part of the strategy of the game consists in bluffing: when one player attacks Doctor Lucky, it is in your interest to persuade your other opponents that you have no failure cards in your hand, to attempt to force them to save the game by spending the required cards.

Stoliar impulsively called Groucho Marx to enlist Groucho's support for an unlikely campaign to attempt to persuade — or pressure — Universal to re-release the film.

Whereas in the comics, Krypton was colorful and bright, in Superman, the planet was envisioned as having stark white terrain of jagged frozen plateaus, stretching broadly under heavy, dark skies ( becoming redder as their sun grew toward becoming supernova ), prompting Jor-El to attempt to persuade the immediate evacuation of the entire planet to the council of elders, to avoid perishing in the cataclysm, to no avail.

His brothers-in-law, however, who begrudged him the possession of their sister Hyrnetho, went to Epidaurus and tried to persuade her to leave her husband ; and when this attempt failed, they carried her off by force.

Marcy also met with Sanaco and the Tecumseh leaders of the southern band of Comanche Indians in an attempt to persuade them to more to the reservation, which they began doing in 1855.

Krantz sent Bakshi to San Francisco, where he stayed with Crumb and his wife, Dana, in an attempt to persuade Crumb to sign the contract.

Linden continued an attempt to persuade the state legislature to move the county seat back to their town, with success in February 1871.

These motions attempt to persuade the judge, through legal argument and sometimes accompanying evidence, that because there is no reasonable way that the other party could legally win, there is no sense in continuing with the trial.

Famously, Baldwin and Hansberry met with Robert F. Kennedy, along with Kenneth Clark and Lena Horne, in an attempt to persuade Kennedy of the importance of civil rights legislation.

Richard himself also provides some dry remarks in evaluating the situation, as when he plans to marry Queen Elizabeth's daughter: " Murder her brothers, then marry her ; Uncertain way of gain ..." Other examples of humour in this play include Clarence's reluctant murderers, and the Duke of Buckingham's report on his attempt to persuade the Londoners to accept Richard ("...

Prince William's aunt Queen Elisabeth of Romania, on learning that the Great Powers were looking for a prince to rule over Albania, asked Take Ionescu to attempt to persuade them to appoint her nephew to the post.

On 3 March 1951 he appeared before the Majlis ( parliament ) in an attempt to persuade the deputies against " full nationalization on the grounds that Iran could not override its international obligations and lacked the capacity to run the oil industry on its own.

In German law, it is normally forbidden (§ 26 StGB ) to induce or persuade someone to commit a crime, or to attempt to do so (§ 30 StGB, in German ).

Rama, however, is quickly able to persuade him to abandon the attempt.

Christof orders that she attempt to persuade Truman to have children.

The restrictions on the Regency expired in February 1812, the King was still showing no signs of recovery, and the Prince Regent decided, after an unsuccessful attempt to persuade Grey and Grenville to join the government, to retain Perceval and his ministers.

Pattison to attempt to persuade him that law and order had been restored in the town.

Dean resisted Mike's attempt to push him toward the horse.

The suicide attempt looked to him like an opportunity to put his theory to the test.

Next day, reports went through the Department that Rooney had been outraged by what he considered a patent attempt to put public pressure on him for increased entertainment allowances and had sworn an oath that, that year, expense allowances would not rise a dollar.

He realized now he had more than half hoped he wouldn't find him -- that Muller would not be here, that the attempt would be scheduled for somewhere beyond Hoag's control.

Alex is then subjected to a relentless barrage of classical music, prompting him to attempt suicide by leaping from a high window.

One is playing cricket ; the other is making no attempt to do so " after the latter had come into the Australian rooms to express sympathy for a Larwood bouncer had struck the Australian skipper in the heart and felled him.

His fame collected round him a host of followers imitating his asceticism in an attempt to imitate his sanctity.

Agrippina began to support Britannicus in her attempt to make him emperor.

In Book 9, Agamemnon and the other Mycenaean chiefs send Ajax, Odysseus and Phoenix to the tent of Achilles in an attempt to reconcile with the great warrior and induce him to return to the fight.

This attempt failed, but gained him the support of Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Hayyay, lord of Carmona, and a cousin of the Sevillan lord, Ahmad ibn Maslama.

However, since 2001, more emphasis has been placed on Defense-Independent Pitching Statistics, including Defense-Independent ERA ( dERA ), in an attempt to evaluate a pitcher's performance regardless of the strength of the defensive players behind him.

Suddenly their child enters the scene and the dynamic changes in an attempt to avoid traumatizing him / her.

Other scholars conclude that the Abomination of Desolation refers to the Crucifixion, an attempt by the emperor Hadrian to erect a statue to Jupiter in the Jewish temple, or an attempt by Caligula to have a statue depicting him as Zeus built in the temple.

Despite this huge show of force, the battle will be short-lived, for Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelation all say that this last desperate attempt to destroy the people and the city of God will end in disaster: " I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed.

Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix, married to his daughter Claudia Antonia, was only descended from Octavia and Antony on one side — not close enough to the Imperial family to prevent doubts ( that did not stop others from making him the object of a coup attempt against Nero a few years later ).

Some developed a gangster-like slang for the verb to kill in an attempt to distance themselves from the killings, such as ' shooting partridges ', of ' sealing ' a victim, or giving him a natsokal ( onomatopoeia of the trigger action ).

The remainder of the first of the two Cathar wars now essentially focused on Simon's attempt to hold on to his fabulous gains through winters where he was faced, with only a small force of confederates operating from the main winter camp at Fanjeau, with the desertion of local lords who had sworn fealty to him out of necessity — and attempts to enlarge his newfound domains in the summer when his forces were greatly augmented by reinforcements from northern France, Germany and elsewhere.

He also approaches the New X-Men in an attempt to help them figure out a non-violent way to help against the Purifiers, but is quickly rebuked by Surge, who questions where he was when they were getting attacked the first time, and that they didn't need to learn from him.

Following his encounter with Wolverine ( in the " Original Sin " Arc ) Professor Xavier seeks out his step brother, the unstoppable Juggernaut in an attempt to reform him.

Professor Xavier then informs him that he now understands Cain as a person and that he will not attempt to get in his way or reform him again.

As punishment for a failed assassination attempt against him, Harkonnen forces Feyd to single-handedly slaughter all the female slaves who serve as Feyd's lovers.

David told Saul he was prepared to face Goliath alone, and Saul allowed him to make the attempt.

Although he has become something of a political legend, Donald would have abhorred any attempt to turn him into some kind of secular saint.