arguments
Reasons for positions
Arguments are reasons or evidence offered to support a position: Her arguments for the policy were persuasive.
An argument is also a dispute or quarrel: They got into an argument about money.
The word can mean a summary of a work's content, as in the argument preceding each book of *Paradise Lost*.
In computing and mathematics, an argument is a value passed to a function.
Angry verbal dispute
- disputeVerbal clash over differences
- clashViolent disagreement or collision
- altercationHeated verbal dispute
- feudBitter ongoing rivalry
squabble · bickering · spat · tiff · wrangle · shouting match · heated exchange · falling-out
Foundation for logical argument
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- syllogismFormal deductive argument structure
- validityQuality of being sound
- soundnessReliability of structure
inference · deduction · induction · fallacy · proposition · axiom · theorem · corollary
Art of persuasive language
- ethosCollective moral character
- pathosPity-evoking quality
- logosBrand identification symbols
- reasoningDrawing logical conclusions
evidence · rationale · justification · case · grounds · support · counterpoint · claim
Formal response disputing claims
- propositionStatement expressing a judgment
- motionChange in position
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
- affirmativeExpressing agreement or consent
negative · cross-examination · opening statement · closing statement · moderator · podium · adjudicate · parliamentary
Academic argument requiring defense
- antithesisDirect opposite; contrasting juxtaposition
- synthesisCombining parts into whole
- HegelianOf German idealism's founder
- SocraticRelating to elenctic inquiry
dialogue · dialectical · contradiction · negation · interplay · progression · philosophical · Marxist
quarrel
Angry verbal dispute
- disputeVerbal clash over differences
- clashViolent disagreement or collision
- altercationHeated verbal dispute
feud · squabble · bickering · spat · tiff · wrangle · shouting match · heated exchange · falling-out · row
premise
Foundation for logical argument
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- syllogismFormal deductive argument structure
- validityQuality of being sound
soundness · inference · deduction · induction · fallacy · proposition · axiom · theorem · corollary · antecedent
rhetoric
Art of persuasive language
reasoning · evidence · rationale · justification · case · grounds · support · counterpoint · claim · thesis
rebuttal
Formal response disputing claims
- propositionStatement expressing a judgment
- motionChange in position
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
affirmative · negative · cross-examination · opening statement · closing statement · moderator · podium · adjudicate · parliamentary · constructive
thesis
Academic argument requiring defense
- antithesisDirect opposite; contrasting juxtaposition
- synthesisCombining parts into whole
- HegelianOf German idealism's founder
Socratic · dialogue · dialectical · contradiction · negation · interplay · progression · philosophical · Marxist · materialism
- conflictsfight, war, battle, dispute, conflict
- Parenting Teensadolescence, puberty, rebellion, teen rebellion, curfew
- social behaviorcourtesy, etiquette, friendship, greeting, cooperation
- workplace conflictspower struggles, disagreements, office politics, turf wars, miscommunication
- court recordscourt documents, court transcripts, court records, court cases, court record
- philosophical writingstreatises, dialogues, discourses, meditations, critiques
argumentsagreements
Formal mutual arrangements
harmony · accord · concord · peace · reconciliation
argumentsassertions
Statements presented as true
assumptions · claims · declarations · opinions · suppositions
argumentsconcessions
Things granted or yielded
admissions · acquiescence · capitulation · agreement · surrender
- circular argumentsProofs requiring their conclusions
- oral argumentSpoken case presentation
- heated argumentIntense verbal conflict
- closing argumentsAttorney's final jury address
- opening argumentsInitial courtroom persuasion
- valid argumentReasoning where conclusion follows necessarily
argument, argumentative, argumentation, counterargument, argument's, argumentativeness, argumentatively