Argument in sentence

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There's also a long tradition of attempting to discern the value of sadness, and in that discussion, you'll find a strong argument that sadness is not only an inevitable part of life but an essential one.

The argument itself was riveting.

Getting a bad grade, losing a job, having an argument, even a rainy day can bring on feelings of sadness.

Or maybe you've been in an argument when the other person suddenly accuses you of not listening to what they're saying at all?

So this world that we live in, this world in which every conversation has the potential to devolve into an argument, where our politicians can't speak to one another and where even the most trivial of issues have someone fighting both passionately for it and against it, it's not normal.

Don't think about your argument you had with your boss.

If you want to state your opinion without any opportunity for response or argument or pushback or growth, write a blog.

The point is to use factual knowledge to convince the audience, as in Sojourner Truth's argument for women's rights: "I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man.

The Mary's room thought experiment describes what philosophers call the knowledge argument, that there are non-physical properties and knowledge which can only be discovered through conscious experience.

The knowledge argument contradicts the theory of physicalism, which says that everything, including mental states, has a physical explanation.

The knowledge argument isn't just about color vision.

Philosophers interested in artificial intelligence have used the knowledge argument to theorize that recreating a physical state won't necessarily recreate a corresponding mental state.

This is a Walther PPK 9mm semiautomatic handgun that was used in a shooting in the French Quarter of New Orleans about two years ago on Valentine's Day in an argument over parking.

Now, we can have a circular argument here about whether this increase in fatalities is a response to the increase of small arms, or the other way around.

And you know what the answer to that argument is?

I then think that we can make the argument that we should save the old-growth forest as a matter of national defense.

There was no argument.

So this is why you can't win a political argument.

Because you can have an argument or a disagreement about something, you can get angry at someone.

Now, the judge in question dismissed Emma's suit, and the argument for dismissing the suit was that the employer did hire African-Americans and the employer hired women.

One day, he had an argument with his father, and he yelled, "You're telling me what to do? You're not even my father!"

That is not my argument.

And it was late, it was nearly midnight, we'd gotten into an argument over dinner, and when we got back to our room, he threw his things in the bag and stormed out.

While I can no longer remember what that argument was about, I very clearly remember how I felt watching him leave.

So they wrote her this very email, pleading their case and making the argument that they felt she had evaluated an older version.

Dr. Bostrom's basic argument is that such systems will eventually have such an insatiable thirst for information that they will perhaps learn how to learn and eventually discover that they may have goals that are contrary to human needs.

Now, there are a lot of pieces of Dr. Bostrom's argument to unpack, and I don't have time to unpack them all, but very briefly, consider this: super knowing is very different than super doing.

CA: So it was a beautiful idea in a world where most of the action, most of the issues, took place on national scale, but your argument is that the issues that matter most today no longer take place on a national scale but on a global scale.

Yuval, if you're going to make the argument that we need to get past nationalism because of the coming technological ... danger, in a way, presented by so much of what's happening we've got to have a global conversation about this.

So in a way, your most powerful argument, you can't actually use to make this case.

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