6 sentences with 'argument'
Example sentences and phrases with the word argument and other words derived from it.
• « Thucydides thus deliberately crafted an argument (a thesis) and defended it with historical evidence, precisely the same thing historians and students of history are expected to do in their written work. »
• « The Greeks held that the two ways in which a man could overcome his rivals and assert his virtue were battle and public argument and argumentation. »
• « Although the Renaissance argument for the degradation of medieval culture was overstated (medieval intellectual life flourished during the late Middle Ages), there is no doubt that there was a different kind of intellectual courage and optimism that emerged from the return to classical rather than medieval models during the Renaissance. »
• « In practice, however, Calvinism implied a kind of circular argument about salvation. Those who were among the elect acted in certain ways: they lived according to the standards of behaviour defined in the Bible, abstained from worldly pleasures, and strove to behave within the legal and social framework of their societies. »
• « De la Barre applied a similar argument to non-European peoples, arguing that there were only cosmetic differences between what would later be called "races". »