Thesaurus: arguments
n a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true n a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement n a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or p…
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- n a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true n a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement n a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal n a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie n (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program n a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable n a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning