Argument(n.) Proof; evidence.
Argument(n.) A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it.
Argument(n.) A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation.
Argument(n.) The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
Argument(n.) Matter for question; business in hand.
Argument(n.) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction.
Argument(n.) The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends.
Argument(v. i.) To make an argument; to argue.
Argumentable(a.) Admitting of argument.
Argumental(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative.
Argumentation(n.) The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true.
Argumentation(n.) Debate; discussion.
Argumentative(a.) Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse.
Argumentative(a.) Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator.
Argumentative(a.) Given to argument; characterized by argument; disputatious; as, an argumentative writer.
Argumentize(v. i.) To argue or discuss.

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