argument

argumentti, todiste

peruste

väittely

pääsisällys A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
Ray

There is (..) no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity.

The argument is not about things, but names.

In ‘The Critic of Arguments’ (1892), Peirce adopts a notion that is even closer to that of a propositional function. There he develops the concept of the ‘rhema’. He says the rhema is like a relative term, but it is not a term. It contains a copula, that is, when joined to the correct number of arguments it produces an assertion. For example, ‘__ is bought by __ from __ for __’ is a four-place rhema. Applying it to four objects a, b, c, and d produces the assertion that a is bought by b from c for d (ibid. 420).

Parameters are like labeled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks.

In numerous works over the past two decades, beginning with the pioneering work of Gruber (1965), Fillmore (1968a), and Jackendoff (1972), it has been argued that each Argument (i.e. Subject or Complement) of a Predicate bears a particular thematic role (alias theta-role, or θ-role to its Predicate), and that the set of thematic functions which Arguments can fulfil are drawn from a highly restricted, finite, universal set.

The altitude is the argument of the refraction.

You and love are still my argument.

Belike this show imports the argument of the play.

: This show is perhaps the subject of the play.

the abstract or argument of the piece

shields with boastful argument portrayed

Sheathed their swords for lack of argument.

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