Collocations withargument
These are words often used in combination withargument.
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abstract argument
Generalizations of the verb-centered instances emerge gradually as the verb-centered categories themselves are analyzed into more abstract argument-structure constructions.
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basic argument
At each step, we report parallel regression results, verifying that our basic argument is substantiated regardless of how we cut the data.
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bitter argument
During the past twenty years, this movement has become a major industry, welcomed by many and lampooned by others, and often the cause of bitter argument.
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closing argument
An assessment of the upper limit to the prevalence of this type of family under the existing political-economic conditions serves as a closing argument.
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cogent argument
But it also seems to me to be difficult to mine out this sort of intuition into any sort of cogent argument.
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coherent argument
As well as a coherent argument, the book offers an excellent overview of current scholarship.
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compelling argument
Without a compelling argument to that conclusion, there is no liberal case for outlawing conduct that forces such a choice on others.
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conclusive argument
Not only is this a dubious claim, we are not even told in outline what such a conclusive argument looks like.
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cosmological argument
And, so, it is by virtue of this conceptual connection that the failure of the ontological argument is supposed to compromise the cosmological argument.
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deductive argument
An omniscient being would find every valid deductive argument to be such.
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detailed argument
Consequently, explication and detailed argument in this manner formed a considerable theme of his speeches.
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dishonest argument
It was a party speech supported by dishonest argument.
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eloquent argument
That letter, with its list of detailed, interventionist ideas, seems to be the best and most eloquent argument that could be made for denationalisation.
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endless argument
These reasons are capable of endless argument and dispute, but at the end they are still there.
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ethical argument
The most immediate ethical argument against cloning concerns risk, the possibility of doing harm.
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fallacious argument
He was suggesting that since everybody cannot have an old master we should not help the art market, but that is a fallacious argument.
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final argument
The final argument is attached to the left of the verb.
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fine-tuning argument
To that extent, then, the value of the fine-tuning argument must be left open.
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forceful argument
Should this method of democratic encouragement not be sufficient, there lurks a more forceful argument for playing by western rules.
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heated argument
Do you think two people having a heated argument think about what they are saying beforehand?
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illogical argument
That is a totally absurd and illogical argument.
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implicit argument
Returning to middle formation, my analysis also has the advantage of handling cases with a non-generic implicit argument.
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inductive argument
If a government body takes an administrative decision then this in many cases should not be based on an inductive argument but on regulations.
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ingenious argument
Stoljar agrees with us that experiences have propositional content, and uses this fact as part of his ingenious argument that we have an unstable position.
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irrefutable argument
That, it was thought, was a sound, suitable and irrefutable argument for taking that "pub" over.
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legal argument
Common sense and political judgement are invaluable to this effect, as a perfectly drafted legal argument may very well be politically impossible.
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legitimate argument
Therefore, hiring fewer qualified personnel in longterm care on the grounds of low technical requirements should no longer stand as a legitimate argument.
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libertarian argument
The libertarian argument is that if something is legal, it ought to be able to be advertised.
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logical argument
The logical argument is able to be challenged by the greater-good hypothesis.
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main argument
Nonetheless, we believe that with some clarification our main argument is robust.
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metaphysical argument
Three arguments will be offered in favor of this position: the logical argument, the metaphysical argument, and the argument from analogy (with other professions).
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moral argument
Remaining true to its encyclopedic format, the volume focuses on factual information, not moral argument.
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nonsensical argument
Of course, they do not get such a service and that is a nonsensical argument.
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ontological argument
And, so, it is by virtue of this conceptual connection that the failure of the ontological argument is supposed to compromise the cosmological argument.
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oral argument
Their energy and steadfastness have been a great strength for me upon whom a good deal of the oral argument devolved.
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passionate argument
And even within reformist circles, there was passionate argument about all of these issues.
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philosophical argument
Hoover does something remarkable in his paper: he criticizes a philosophical argument by means of a piece of social science.
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phoney argument
It was a totally phoney argument because those who benefit from the sale of public corporations are not the small investors.
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powerful argument
This seems like a powerful argument which cannot simply be ignored.
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principal argument
They seem to encumber the principal argument of the study and disturb the coherence of its structure.
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principled argument
Clearly, at this point there is no principled argument that could prove this rationale wrong.
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rational argument
Maybe his faith in rational argument will triumph, at some time in the future.
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reasonable argument
A reasonable argument could be made that the disvalue of disease or death differs less between persons than the marginal value of money.
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reasoned argument
Rights are also a resource: they offer a reasoned argument.
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semantic argument
The semantic argument of the verb that is realized as syntactic subject in such a clause, is traditionally called the logical subject.
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silly argument
I do not wish to pursue a silly argument like that.
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similar argument
A similar argument can be made for individuals in other industries.
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strong argument
Most importantly, they draw together a variety of disciplinary sources to present what social gerontology is in desperate need of, that is a strong argument.
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substantive argument
It is a matter of substantive argument to give content to this principle.
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teleological argument
The teleological argument appealed directly to the vast improbability of order coming into existence by chance.
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theological argument
Here is a book which contains strong theological argument, presented in a readable and stimulating way.
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theoretical argument
We begin with the comparative implications of the general theoretical argument and the ideas motivating the empirical model.
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transcendental argument
He has a ' transcendental argument ' to show that interpretation requires a ' bridgehead ' of beliefs having to do with ' middlesized ' objects.
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utilitarian argument
It began by noting that there are usually two types of justification available for a utilitarian argument: egalitarian and teleological.
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weak argument
Many learned that weak argument would bring a memorable response.
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