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argument is to give reasons for one's conclusion via justification, explanation, and/or persuasion. Arguments are intended to determine or show the degree...

A cosmological argument, in natural theology, is an argument which claims that the existence of God can be inferred from facts concerning causation, explanation...

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

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

be issued against an argument retroactively from the point of reference of that argument. This form of objection – invented by the presocratic philosopher...

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

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

for 'to the person'), short for argumentum ad hominem, refers to several types of arguments that are fallacious. Often nowadays this term refers to a rhetorical...

One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man". The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having refuted or defeated...

imaginary axis is drawn pointing upward, and complex numbers with positive real part are considered to have an anticlockwise argument with positive sign....

new life to the argument in the 20th century, due to his book The Kalām Cosmological Argument (1979), among other writings. The argument's key underpinning...

The existence of God is a subject of debate in the philosophy of religion. A wide variety of arguments for and against the existence of God can be categorized...

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...

Some philosophers of physics take the argument to raise a problem for manifold substantialism, a doctrine that the manifold of events in spacetime is...

A diagonal argument, in mathematics, is a technique employed in the proofs of the following theorems: Cantor's diagonal argument (the earliest) Cantor's...

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

programming, also called point-free style, is a programming paradigm in which function definitions do not identify the arguments (or "points") on which...

"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...

point (a value that is mapped to itself) of its argument function, if one exists. Formally, if fix {\displaystyle {\textrm {fix}}} is a fixed-point combinator...

for an argument or other discussion that has continued to the point of nausea. For example, "this has been discussed ad nauseam" indicates that the topic...