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ARGUMENT , a word meaning "See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof," "See also:evidence," corresponding in See also:English to the Latin word argumentum, from which it is derived; the originating Latin verb arguere, to make clear, from which comes the English " argue," is from a See also:root meaning See also:bright, appearing in See also:Greek apyils, See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white. From its See also:primary sense are derived such applications of the word as a See also:chain of reasoning, a fact or See also:reason given to support a proposition, a discussion of the evidence or reasons for or against some theory or proposition and the like. More particularly " argument " means a synopsis of the contents of a See also:book, the outline of a novel, See also:play, &c. In See also:logic it is used for the See also:middle See also:term in a See also:syllogism, and for many See also:species of fallacies, such as the argumentum ad hominem, ad baculum, &c. (see See also:FALLACY). In See also:mathematics the term has received See also:special meanings ; in mathematical tables
the " argument " is the quantity upon which the other quantities in the table are made to depend; in the theory of complex variables, e.g. such as a+ib where i=V% the " argument " (or " See also:amplitude ") is the See also:angle 8 given by tan 8 = b/a. In See also:astronomy, the term is used in connexion with the Ptolemaic theory to denote the angular distance on the See also:epicycle of a See also:planet from the true apogee of the epicycle; and the " See also:equation to the argument " is the angle subtended at the See also:earth by the distance of a planet from the centre of the epicycle.
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