(linguistics) The property of having one or more arguments; the syntactic connection between the verb of a clause and related phrases. / (rare) Argumentativeness.

The claim that a writer or speaker makes about a controversial issue.

(theology, philosophy) A type of argument for the existence of God arguing that since every thing and event that begins at a point in time has a cause, there must be an uncaused first cause.

(informal) A term often conflated with begging the question in philosophy. / (philosophy, logic) An argument which commits the logical fallacy of assuming what it is attempting to prove.

plural of ontological argument

(philosophy, theology) A type of argument which maintains that the existence of God can be deduced from an analysis of the concept of God.

plural of cosmological argument

(philosophy, theology) A type of argument for the existence of God, stating that orderliness of nature is evidence of design, therefore also of a designer.

plural of teleological argument

(logic) The result of replacing parts of an argument with letters, leaving only logic words such as "if" and "for all" unreplaced.