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You are 'da man! What up G?An Tyler just read this out loud to my class and did an exceptional job! Yeah!!!argument is a statement (premise) or group of statements (premises) offered in support of another statement (conclusion). Argument may refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...

• 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: To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The term induction has more than one meaning in the English language. ... In logic, an argument is an attempt to demonstrate the truth of an assertion called a conclusion, based on the truth of a set of assertions called premises. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Oral arguments are verbal presentations to a judge or appellate court by a lawyer (or the party when representing themselves) of the legal reasons why they should prevail. ... A syntactic verb argument, in linguistics, is a phrase that appears in a relationship with the verb in a proposition. ... An heuristic argument is an argument that reasons from the value of a method or principle that has been shown by experimental (especially trial-and-error) investigation to be a useful aid in learning, discovery and problem-solving. ... In the scientific method, an experiment (Latin: ex-+-periri, of (or from) trying), is a set of actions and observations, performed in the context of solving a particular problem or question, to support or falsify a hypothesis or research concerning phenomena. ... Look up Rigour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In theology and the philosophy of religion, an ontological argument for the existence of God is an argument that Gods existence can be proved a priori, that is, by intuition and reason alone. ... A political argument is an instance of a logical argument applied to politics. ... A Doublespeak argument is the name given to an argument, or debate, where one or more sides seems to be using reasonings that are not the real reasonings for that side. ... The javelin argument is an ancient and elementary argument of cosmology. ... An argument in literature is a brief summary, often in prose, of a poem or section of a poem or other work. ... A grand argument story is a type of story that is intended to be conceptually complete and to answer a core argument from both an emotionally and logically comprehensive perspective. ... For other meanings of mathematics or math, see mathematics (disambiguation). ... Science in the broadest sense refers to any system of knowledge attained by verifiable means. ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... Engineering is the application of scientific and technical knowledge to solve human problems. ... In an experimental design, the independent variable (also known as predictor or regressor) is the variable which is manipulated or selected by the experimenter to determine its relationship to an observed phenomenon (the dependent variable). ... In mathematics, a function is a relation, such that each element of a set (the domain) is associated with a unique element of another (possibly the same) set (the codomain, not to be confused with the range). ...

• 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: In mathematics, a complex number is a number of the form where a and b are real numbers, and i is the imaginary unit, with the property i 2 = −1. ... In mathematics, a complex number is a number of the form where a and b are real numbers, and i is the imaginary unit, with the property i 2 = −1. ... This article describes some of the common coordinate systems that appear in elementary mathematics. ... The contour C (black), the zeros of f (blue) and the poles of f (red). ... A theorem is a proposition that has been or is to be proved on the basis of explicit assumptions. ... Complex analysis is the branch of mathematics investigating functions of complex numbers, and is of enormous practical use in many branches of mathematics, including applied mathematics. ... In complex analysis, a meromorphic function on an open subset D of the complex plane is a function that is holomorphic on all D except a set of isolated points, which are poles for the function. ... A variety of diagonal arguments are used in mathematics. ... In mathematics, the domain of a function is the set of all input values to the function. ... Transfinite numbers, also known as infinite numbers, are numbers that are not finite. ... In mathematics, the set of real numbers, denoted R, is the set of all rational numbers and irrational numbers. ... The word probability derives from the Latin probare (to prove, or to test). ... Probability theory is the mathematical study of probability. ... Parameters are a way of allowing the same sequence of commands to operate on different data without re-specifying the instructions. ... The terms computer program, software program, applications program, system software, or just program are used to refer to either an executable program by both lay people and computer programmers or the collection of source code from which an executable program is created (eg, compiled). ... Look up Procedure in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. ...

• "Argument," a song by Fugazi from their 2001 album The Argument

The 2001 album The Argument is the sixth full-length album from the alternative rock band Fugazi. ...

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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