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purpose of an argument is to give reasons for one's conclusion via justification, explanation, and/or persuasion. Arguments are intended to determine or...

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...

intangibles. 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...

A cosmological argument, in natural theology and the philosophy of religion, is an argument which asserts that the existence of God can be inferred from...

doomsday argument (DA), or Carter catastrophe, is a probabilistic argument that claims to predict the future population of the human species based on an estimation...

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...

An individual using this argument may claim that an average person should not worry about government surveillance, as they would have "nothing to hide"...

derivatives, and concatenative languages such as Forth. The lack of argument naming gives point-free style a reputation of being unnecessarily obscure, hence...

fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man". The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition...

In general relativity, the hole argument is an apparent paradox that much troubled Albert Einstein while developing his famous field equations. Some philosophers...

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...

In the philosophy of religion, an ontological argument is a deductive philosophical argument, made from an ontological basis, that is advanced in support...

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 orbiting...

proceedings. Oral argument is not always considered an essential part of due process, as the briefs also give the parties an opportunity to be heard by the...

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...

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...

originally presented the argument in reaction to statements of artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, it is not an argument against the goals of mainstream...

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...

The knowledge argument (also known as Mary's Room or Mary the super-scientist) is a philosophical thought experiment proposed by Frank Jackson in his article...

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