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Revision as of 04:26, 31 October 2017
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 or reasons for accepting a particular conclusion.
Argument may also refer to:
contradiction a shouting match
Mathematics and computer science
- Argument (complex analysis), a function which returns the polar angle of a complex number
- Parameter (computer programming), a piece of data provided as input to a subroutine
- Argument principle, a theorem in complex analysis
- An argument of a function, also known as an independent variable
Language and rhetoric
- Argument (literature), a brief summary, often in prose, of a poem or section of a poem or other work
- Argument (linguistics), a phrase that appears in a syntactic relationship with the verb in a clause
- Oral argument, in US law, a spoken presentation to a judge or appellate court by a lawyer (or parties when representing themselves) of the legal reasons why they should prevail
- Closing argument, in law, the concluding statement of each party's counsel reiterating the important arguments in a court case
Music
- Musical argument, a concept in the theory of musical form
Other uses
- Argument (ship), an Australian sloop wrecked in 1809
- The Argument, the sixth studio album from the post-hardcore band Fugazi
- Argument Clinic, a Monty Python sketch
- A disagreement between two or more parties or the discussion of the disagreement