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Synonyms for argument

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for argument

a course of reasoning

Synonyms

a fact or circumstance that gives logical support to an assertion, claim, or proposal

what a speech, piece of writing, or artistic work is about

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Synonyms for argument

a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true

a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal

a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie

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(computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program

a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable

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This accounts for the fact that complex structures involving the same components (e.g., a particular argument pattern) display the same or similar meanings.
These documents were subjected to an argument pattern analysis (for a discussion of pattern analysis see Miles & Huberman, 1994).
When offering support for their characterizations of public opinion in the first argument pattern ("what the public wants"), politicians tended to refer to their discussions with members of the public.
From the standpoint of a rhetorician, they appear to come from Gaskins' quick move from law to rhetoric to dialectic in the first chapter; rhetoricians will need to fill in some of the historical and theoretical gaps in Gaskins' analysis of argument patterns.