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The only sort of pride that may serve a man well on that rarest occasion is his hatred of being wrong. It keeps his mouth shut, his ears open, and his research extensive. And yet this is also the dead...
Argument Definition
(n.) Proof; evidence.
(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.
(n.) A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation.
(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.
(n.) Matter for question; business in hand.
(n.) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction.
(n.) The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends.
(v. i.) To make an argument; to argue.
Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Animals fight to get what they want--food, sex, territory, control, etc.--because there are other animals...