Definitions

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  • noun Plural of argumentum.

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  • noun Plural form of argumentum.

Etymologies

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From the Latin argūmenta, nominative plural form of argūmentum.

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Examples

  • Como el presidente Zelaya no cometió nunca esa inapelable violación o si la cometió y la forma como se argumenta que la cometió es de por si un desafío jurídico, entonces la Corte Suprema de Justicia estaba obligada a tomar cartas en el asunto para evitar una crisis y un golpe de estado de gravísimas consecuencias para Honduras.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » CRS on the Honduras “Coup”: 2009

  • Clearly, we need a clearer definition of argumenta ad hominem.

    Whether true or not 2009

  • There surely can't be anyone on the planet who hasn't heard the prohibitionist argumenta about passive smoking, but folks who work in bars have decided to ignore them, so now they're reverting to thuggish type.

    Nanny State, Police State Laban 2006

  • What is not on topic are your argumenta ad hominem, in which you take up not the issues, but what you claim to be the personal characteristics of your those whom you regard as opponents: Mr Bush is an «alcohol-soaked-brain'd moron» and my last posting reads «like the ramblings of someone who had a few too many pints at the pub» (can it be the case that you are fixated on alcohol?).

    Hamas Victory is Bush "War Against Terror" Failure 2007

  • What is not on topic are your argumenta ad hominem, in which you take up not the issues, but what you claim to be the personal characteristics of your those whom you regard as opponents: Mr Bush is an «alcohol-soaked-brain'd moron» and my last posting reads «like the ramblings of someone who had a few too many pints at the pub» (can it be the case that you are fixated on alcohol?).

    Hamas Victory is Bush "War Against Terror" Failure 2007

  • Una ar putea argumenta că există teme atemporale în 300 şi acestea sunt ceea ce este important, la fel ca în Stăpânul Inelelor.

    ideonexus.com »2007» martie 2007

  • Religia nu are intenţia de a onora noma; prin urmare, este responsabilitatea seculari de a argumenta superioritatea asupra empirismului nedovedit.

    ideonexus.com »2007» martie 2007

  • Sendo a Wikipédia um esforço colaborativo, argumenta Lanier que a sua premissa mais básica - o esforço combinado de muitos para o bem de todos - pouco difere das colectivizações soviéticas ou nacional-socialistas.

    Leituras Artur 2006

  • Whether or not these various caveats should have had argumenta - tive power in theology is perhaps a question; but that they did in fact strike home with many clergymen, laymen, and theologians is not to be doubted, and indicates how widely shared was the secular mood which they expressed.

    IDEA OF GOD SINCE 1800 LANGDON GILKEY 1968

  • Non argumenta, non verisimilitudines quaerimus, quibus judicium nostrum incumbat; sed ut rei extra aestimandi aleam positae, judicium ingeniumque nostrum subjicimus ...

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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