to reinforce one's argument
1argument — noun 1 discussion ADJECTIVE ▪ bitter, heated, violent ▪ big ▪ I had a big argument with my mother this morning. ▪ little, petty …
2A fortiori argument — The Latin phrase la. argumentum a fortiori literally means one of the following: * from the stronger * even more so * with even stronger reason It denotes a proof of a claim by means of an already proved stronger claim. For example, if it is… …
3fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter. Cf. fluid dynamics. [1940 45] * * * Study of the effects of forces and energy on liquids and gases. One branch of the field, hydrostatics, deals with fluids at… …
4Problem of evil — Part of a series on God General conceptions …
5Plato: metaphysics and epistemology — Robert Heinaman METAPHYSICS The Theory of Forms Generality is the problematic feature of the world that led to the development of Plato’s Theory of Forms and the epistemological views associated with it.1 This pervasive fact of generality appears …
6ZIONISM — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the word and its meaning forerunners ḤIBBAT ZION ROOTS OF ḤIBBAT ZION background to the emergence of the movement the beginnings of the movement PINSKER S AUTOEMANCIPATION settlement… …
7Arthur Schopenhauer — Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophy era = 19th century philosophy color = #B0C4DE | image caption = Arthur Schopenhauer | name = Arthur Schopenhauer birth = February 22, 1788 (Danzig, Germanic Prussia) death = Death date and… …
8Crowd manipulation — March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 led by Martin Luther King Vladmir Lenin addresses a crowd of chee …
9World War II — the war between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and of Japan on August 14, 1945. Abbr.: WWII * * * or Second World War (1939–45)… …
10France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
