Argument
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An argument is a statement (premise) or group of statements (premises) offered in support of another statement (conclusion). Argument may refer to:
- deductive argument, if valid, the conclusion follows by necessity
- inductive argument, if strong, the conclusion is, at best, probably true
- logical argument, a demonstration of a proof, or using logical reasoning for persuasion
- oral argument, a verbal presentation to a judge by a lawyer
- verb argument, a phrase in a sentence that qualifies a verb
- heuristic argument, a proof or demonstration relying on experimental results, or one which is not fully rigorous
- ontological argument, a proof by intuition or reason of the existence of God
- political argument, the use of logic rather than propaganda in promoting political ideas
- doublespeak argument, the use of misleading or irrelevant reasoning by one side during a debate
- javelin argument, a cosmological reasoning about the infinite size of the universe
- argument (literature), the brief summary at the beginning of a section of a poem
- grand argument story, a type of story that is intended to be conceptually complete
In mathematics, science (including computer science), and engineering, an argument is, generally speaking, an independent variable or input to a function. It may also mean:
- complex argument, the angular component φ of a complex number represented in polar coordinates
- argument principle, a theorem in complex analysis about meromorphic functions inside and on a closed contour
- diagonal argument, a type of proof over an infinite domain, used to identify the cardinal class of the real numbers
- probabilistic argument, any proof using probability theory
- argument (computer science), an input to a subprogram or subroutine
In music, argument may mean:
- "Argument," a song by Fugazi from their 2001 album The Argument
[edit] See also
- Argument form, a method of logically analyzing sentences
- Argumentation theory, the science and theory of civil debates
- Argumentative, a type of evidentiary objection to a question for a witness during a trial
- Default argument, an actual parameter to a program that is used when no other actual parameter is provided
- Existence of God, contains lists of common ontological arguments for and arguments against the existence of God
- Toulmin Model, The model of an argument
- Distinction without a difference
- The Argument Skit, from Monty Python's Flying Circus
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