cogent argument

collocation in English

meaningsofcogentandargument

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cogent
adjective
uk
/ˈkəʊ.dʒənt/us
/ˈkoʊ.dʒənt/
A cogent argument, reason, etc. is clearly expressed and persuades people to ...
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argument
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɑːɡ.jə.mənt/us
/ˈɑːrɡ.jə.mənt/
a disagreement, or the process ...
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(Definition ofcogentandargumentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But it also seems to me to be difficult to mine out this sort of intuition into any sort ofcogentargument.
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Her answer was that we provided substantial evidence and acogentargumentfor declarative consciousness as a shared psychological property in humans, monkeys, and dolphins.
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With some reservations, it presents acogentargumentthat such behaviors can be explained without reference to evolution.
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Surely nocogentargumentis to be found on the basis of what has been built.
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They provide not only substantial evidence but also acogentargumentfor declarative consciousness as a shared psychological property in humans, monkeys, and dolphins.
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These ideas did not provide a clear andcogentargument, but rather an association of several different concepts, some of them having their origins in newly popular stoic thought.
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A prime reason for this is the preponderant tedious style of the bureaucratic report in which paragraphing seems to be more important than building up a consistent andcogentargument.
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The clear message of this paper is in our (hopefully)cogentargumentthat the devil in realising the promises of agent technology is in the details.
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He has put forward, in his usual way, a verycogentargumentand one aspect which he has presented had not occurred to me before.
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I agree that that is a mostcogentargument.
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I may he quite wrong but, if that is the result, that seems to me a mostcogentargumentagainst this scheme.
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There is a great deal of sound sense andcogentargumentin that paragraph.
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It may be that it was acogentargumentwhich has bubbled up in their minds, although they have no figures in support of it.
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There is a great deal ofcogentargumentto prove that point.
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Nocogentargumenthas been put forward for that distinction.
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I think that that is a verycogentargumentindeed—at least, it is with me.
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That may well have been so in days gone by and it would have been acogentargumenteven 10 years ago.
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Is that not acogentargumentfor tenancy courts?
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I think it has to be said that there is acogentargumentfor separating advice and inspection.
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