(law) A portion of a legal proceeding wherein the attorneys present their argument by speaking directly to the judge and answering the judge's questions.

plural of oral argument

(philosophy) An argument in favour of a right to abortion that appeals to a thought experiment in which a person with a rare blood type is kidnapped and plugged into a famous unconscious violinist with a fatal kidney ailment; if the violinist is unplugged, he will die, but if he stays plugged into the kidnappee for nine months, he will recover from his ailment. The argument assumes that in this hypothetical scenario, the kidnappee has the right to unplug themselves from the violinist at any time even if this will cause his death, because the violinist does not have a right to the kidnappee’s body.

plural of homunculus argument

An informal fallacy whereby a concept is explained in terms of the concept itself, recursively.

To believe an opinion has enough justification to sustain a debate about it, whether or not the opinion is ultimately true.

A proof, developed by Georg Cantor, to show that the set of real numbers is uncountably infinite.

A flawed argument.

Alternative form of pseudoargument

(theology) A teleological argument.