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| | Argument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Argument, an album by the band Fugazi released in 2001 | | | This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title. | | | Existence of God, contains lists of common ontological arguments for and arguments against the existence of God |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument
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| | Argumentative Essays |
| | For example, it's not enough to argue that adults learn better by doing than by listening to lectures, and to use the experience of one adult learner to validate your argument. | | | The concept is simple: you state your point and back it up. | | | The purpose of argument, in an academic setting, is to analyze an issue or a situation and to make a case for your point of view, to convince your reader or listener of the truth of something. |
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http://www.esc.edu/esconline/across_esc/writerscomplex.nsf/0/e26dcd4a4c7ce43285256a0000602c03?OpenDocument
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| | Argument [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Consequently, it is impossible to ascertain whether or not a certain utterance is an argument without ascertaining the speaker's intentions within the given context. | | | Sometimes, logicians also speak of predicates and relations as having a certain number of "argument-places". | | | Even the conclusion of an argument can be left unstated if it is obvious enough from context that the speaker intends his or her words to provide evidence for a certain proposition. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/argument.htm
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| | On Argument. |
| | In this life sustaining process, we will be obliged to listen to the arguments, and, where necessary, to make them. | | | In life we must learn life sustaining activities: listening to a good argument and making a good argument are two of these activities. | | | They often do not argue their case; they may argue, for example, that the Defendant can afford to pay, or the plaintiff doesn't deserve the award on the basis that there are people worse off. |
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http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/BluePete/Argument.htm
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| | UNC Writing Center Handout Argument |
| | At the same time, do not think of your audience as a genius clairvoyant. | | | Argumentation is not just what your instructors do. | | | Arguments in academic writing are usually complex and take time to develop. |
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http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/argument.html
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| | A Swift and Simple Refutation of the Kalam Cosmological Argument? |
| | I think I can show, however, that it is Taylor who is far too quick and easy in his critique. | | | First, in response to my argument that if an actually infinite number of things, say, books, could exist, then it would be impossible to add to the collection, which is obviously absurd, Taylor rejoins that one may simply re-number the collection so as to admit the addition of the new member. | | | Critics of the argument pointed out, however, that the absurdity of the Tristram Shandy story lies not in the infinity of the past, but in the requirement that he record a day not succeeded by a year. |
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http://www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/docs/kalam-oppy.html
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| | Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence |
| | (8) (Oh, I have to do the end of the argument.) | | | ARGUMENT FROM LACK OF EYEWITNESS (I) (1) You weren't there to witness abiogenisis/Big Bang/etc. | | | ARGUMENT FROM HIDDEN LOGIC (I) (1) Intellectually, I know that the existence of God is impossible, or vastly improbable. |
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http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/GodProof.htm
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| | Cosmological Argument |
| | Kant held that the cosmological argument, in concluding to the existence of a necessary being, argues for the existence of a being whose nonexistence is absolutely inconceivable. | | | The more this indeterminacy has ontological significance, the weaker is the causal principle. | | | Everything that begins to exist has a cause of its existence. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmological-argument
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| | The Craig-Tooley Debate: Dr. Tooley's Opening Statement |
| | A Classic Debate on the Existence of God | | | The argument focuses upon the fact that the world appears to contain states of affairs that are bad or undesirable, and it asks, in effect, how the existence of such states of affairs are to he squared with the existence of God. | | | That argument goes as follows: if God exists, he will want to eliminate evil since he is by definition morally perfect. |
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http://www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/docs/craig-tooley2.html
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| | The Kalam Cosmological Argument: A Summary |
| | One wonders what the words "genocide," "fantasy," and "sludge" are doing in an ostensibly rational analysis of a philosophical argument. | | | Let us imagine a hotel with a finite number of rooms, and let us assume that all the rooms are occupied. | | | Put simply, kalam arguments try to demonstrate (1) that the existence of an actual infinite (a concept from modern set theory to be discussed shortly) is impossible and (2) that even if it were possible, the universe itself is not actually infinite and hence must have had a beginning. |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/billramey/kalam.htm
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| | A critique of the kalam argument |
| | Everything that begins to exist has a cause of its existence. | | | Craig's argument is supposed to show us that this is impossible. | | | Even the great skeptic David Hume admitted that he never asserted so absurd a proposition as that something might come into existence without a cause; he only denied that one could prove the obviously true causal principle. |
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http://stripe.colorado.edu/~morristo/kalam_wes.html
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| | The Fishbowl: Charles' Rules of Argument |
| | Rules for arguments: Surprisingly, this is very similar to what I think my own rules are. | | | From: The Indiana Jones School of Management at March 25, 2004 03:20 AM | | | This was utter crap, and contradicts its own point. |
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http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2004/03/21/charles_rules_of_argument
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| | The Atheism Web: Logic & Fallacies |
| | The word of God cannot be doubted, and the Bible states that the Bible is true. | | | Here's an example of an argument which is valid, and which may or may not be sound: | | | A sound argument must arrive at a true conclusion. |
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http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
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| | Arguments for the Existence of God |
| | But, in the sense of 'existence' required for the Ontological Argument, a corpse exists as much as a living organism. | | | For the only way in which one can infer that X exists from the fact that Y exists is by showing that the existence of X is a necessary condition for the existence of Y. These latter arguments fall into two sub-classes, according to the nature of the existential premiss that they use. | | | That chapter is, indeed, concerned primarily with ethical arguments for human survival, and not for the existence of God. |
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http://www.ditext.com/broad/aeg.html
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| | Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? |
| | The simulation argument works equally well for those who think that it will take hundreds of thousands of years to reach a “posthuman” stage of civilization, where humankind has acquired most of the technological capabilities that one can currently show to be consistent with physical laws and with material and energy constraints. | | | Apart from the interest this thesis may hold for those who are engaged in futuristic speculation, there are also more purely theoretical rewards. | | | The structure of the paper is as follows. |
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http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
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| | Chinese Room Argument [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Beginning with objections published along with Searle's original (1980a) presentation, opinions have drastically divided, not only about whether the Chinese room argument is cogent; but, among those who think it is, as to why it is; and, among those who think it is not, as to why not. | | | Besides the Chinese room thought experiment, Searle's more recent presentations of the Chinese room argument feature - with minor variations of wording and in the ordering of the premises - a formal "derivation from axioms" (1989, p. | | | To call the Chinese room controversial would be an understatement. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/c/chineser.htm
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| | Argument |
| | They may object that the rebates or bonuses and the costs of running the program are not feasible. | | | Summarize main points and the refutation of opponents' argument, but be careful not to simply repeat what you've said in the body. | | | For the topic, there must be a pro and con side. |
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http://virtual.parkland.edu/jforman/expository/argument.html
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| | Peter Suber, "Basic Terms" |
| | If an argument is sound, then its conclusion must be true and we would be illogical to disbelieve it. | | | An argument is deductive if the premises claim to give conclusive grounds for the truth of the conclusion, or if the premises claim to support the conclusion with necessity. | | | An argument is inductive if it makes the milder claim that its premises support but do not guarantee its conclusion. |
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/log/terms1.htm
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| | argument |
| | This is a strong argument in favor of her theory. | | | They were deeply involved in an argument about inflation. | | | The central argument of his paper was presented clearly. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/argument
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| | Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? |
| | The topics discussed include: the Doomsday argument, scepticism, the different modes of virtual life, transcendental idealism, the Problem of Evil, and simulation ethics. | | | A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed. | | | I argue he has misinterpreted the relevant indifference principle and that he has not provided any sound argument against the correct interpretation, nor has he addressed the arguments for this principle that I gave in the original paper. |
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http://www.simulation-argument.com
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| | Argument Forms |
| | We simply chart the truth-values of each premise and the conclusion of an argument form for every possible combination of truth-values for the statement variables involved, and look to see what happens on those lines of the truth-table in which all of the premises are true. | | | Most arguments are substitution-instances of several distinct argument forms, each of which can be no more complex in structure than the argument itself. | | | This unreliable argument form is called the fallacy of affirming the consequent. |
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http://www.philosophypages.com/lg/e10b.htm
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| | Answers and Explanations -- Imaginary Numbers: How To Show They Exist |
| | But the point of going through it is that exactly the same argument can be used to show that imaginary numbers exist. | | | Suppose the only things you knew about were the natural numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.), and you had to show that "three halves" exists. | | | But even though you already knew that fractions exist, and didn't need this long argument proving it, the point of going through the details of the argument is that exactly the same argument can be used to show that imaginary numbers exist. |
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http://www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/answers/imagexist.html
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| | Philosophical Terms and Methods |
| | Some are bad because their premises are false; others are bad because their conclusions do not follow from their premises. | | | The goal of an argument is not to attack your opponent, or to impress your audience. | | | If we recognize that an argument is bad, then it loses its power to convince us. |
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http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/general/vocab/argument.html
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| | classical structure of an argument |
| | , which provides a strong conclusion, amplifying the force of the argument, and showing the readers that this solution is the best at meeting the circumstances. | | | This gives an impression of the rightness and importance of your argument, and suggests its larger significance or long-range impact. | | | It takes up several supporting claims individually, so that you can develop each one by bringing in facts, examples, testimony, definitions, and so on. |
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http://www.winthrop.edu/wcenter/handoutsandlinks/classica.htm
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| | Monkeyfist.com: A simple, prima facie argument in favor of the Semantic Web |
| | This argument is inconclusive in a number of ways. | | | The thrust of this argument is that if there were more information "in" the links than their mere presence, Googlesque analysis would be able to do more, perhaps much, much more. | | | This suggests a second round of prima facie argument: The more machine understandable we make the content of the pages, the more likely search results will combine harmoniously with link derived information. |
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http://www.monkeyfist.com/articles/815
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| | The Argument Sketch |
| | Well, do you want to have just one argument, or were you thinking of taking a course? | | | M: Ah, Is this the right room for an argument? | | | M: Well, I think it would be best if I perhaps started off with just the one and then see how it goes. |
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http://www.mindspring.com/~mfpatton/sketch.htm
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| | OWL at Purdue University: Argumentation/Persuasion: Logic in Argumentative Writing |
| | You can use these terms and concepts to help you both analyze the arguments of others and generate your own arguments when you write. | | | This set of handouts will take you through some of the more common terms and concepts used in formal logical reasoning. | | | Click on any of the links to the left to visit a page, or use the links marked "next page" or "back a page" to navigate through the whole set. |
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_argpers.html
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| | argument from FOLDOC |
| | Arguments to functions are usually, following mathematical notation, written in parentheses after the function name, separated by commas. | | | Arguments to a program are usually given after the command name, separated by spaces, e.g.: | | | There are many different conventions for passing arguments to functions and procedures including call-by-value, call-by-name, call-by-need. |
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http://foldoc.org/?argument
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| | The Straight Dope: Is U.S. income tax invalid because Ohio wasn't legally a state when the 16th amendment was ratified? |
| | Brodrick, 214 F.2d 925 (10th Circuit 1954), the court dismissed an attack on the Sixteenth Amendment as being 'clearly unsubstantial and without merit,' as well as 'far fetched and frivolous.'" | | | In previous cases having nothing to do with the Ohio argument we upheld the constitutionality of the 16th Amendment, so too bad for you, Bobo. | | | Since 1803 everybody had assumed that Ohio was a state, and we don't feel like upsetting the apple cart now. |
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http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_127.html
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| | The Corner on National Review Online |
| | I think it is right that the soundest normative argument for originalism has to do with the requirements of the rule of law. | | | But when precedents have departed from the original understanding, and people have formed expectations based on those precedents, then a return to the original understanding is destabilizing. | | | The Constitution lays out a process for its own amendment, which does not include amendment through reinterpretation. |
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http://corner.nationalreview.com/05_07_03_corner-archive.asp
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| | What is argument? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | In addition, some programming languages make a distinction between arguments, which are passed in only one direction, and parameters, which can be passed back and forth, but this distinction is by no means universal. | | | An argument can also be an option to a command, in which case it is often called a command-line argument. | | | The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words |
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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/argument.html
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| | Philosophical Dictionary: Arche-Artificial Intelligence |
| | The general logical structure of an argument, considered apart from any of its specific content. | | | A collection of two or more propositions, all but one of which are the premises supposed to provide inferential support—either deductive or inductive—for the truth of the remaining one, the conclusion. | | | Originally a student of Socrates, Aristippus (and his eponymous grandson) established the Cyrenaic school of philosophy, according to which sensual pleasure in the present moment, tempered only by moderation, is the genuine good for human life. |
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http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/a7.htm
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| | What is a core argument? |
| | In John gave a donation to the Salvation Army, the core arguments are John, a donation, and Salvation Army. | | | This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003. | | | A core argument of a verb is a subject, direct object, or indirect object. |
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http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsACoreArgument.htm
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| | Hugh Hewitt |
| | Time's selection for people of the year has been justly lampooned all over the place, but the best argument for individuals would be these two, and for a group, the Iraqi electorate. | | | Thus, even though the argument is contained in the opinion, it loses. | | | Had he done so, readers would have immediately seen that Leon is making stuff up, and not only making stuff up, getting the importance of the case completely wrong. |
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http://hughhewitt.com
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