He impugns it as if it excluded philosophy and argumentative scrutiny: whereas, on the contrary, it is the only basis upon which philosophy or "reasoned truth" can stand.
See, however, a long, argumentative article in the cahier of the Third Estate of Rennes, A.
These nations know well that in other lands idle men spend their time in disputing about vice and virtue, but they have considered the morals of these argumentative persons and have learned to despise their doctrine.
This roused all his impetuosity; and few, as I soon discovered, were more impetuous in argumentative conversation.
It was in some degree a turning-point in the author's artistic career: for most of his emotional poems were published before, and most of the argumentative after it; and in this sense his work may be said to divide itself into two.
But the dread of being diffuse had doubly rooted itself in his mind, and was to bear fruit again as soon as the more historical or argumentative mood should prevail.
No further progress was made with theargumentative part of the Testimony, and a petition from Greenfield, to have Synod's mind relative to occasional hearing, was returned.
It was urged, at the time, that the argumentative part of our Testimony should be hastened to completion, but without effect.
But in Lincoln's argumentative speeches the employment of beautiful words is least sparing at the beginning or when he passes to a new subject.
For the view taken in the South there is one really powerful argument, on which Jefferson Davis insisted passionately in the argumentative memoirs with which he solaced himself in old age.
I’ll bet you——” And the old man raised his voice to the argumentative pitch commonly employed in heated controversies around the stove in Hewett’s grocery.
The Vatican replied in such language as might have been expected by anybody with less than Mr. Gladstone's inextinguishable faith in the virtues of argumentative persuasion.
The consummate mastery of this argumentative performance did not slay a heresy that has nine lives, but it drove the thing out of sight in Yorkshire for some time to come.
When the meeting adjourned, the lank unhealthy swaying creature in the corner, who had been mumbling the tractate Baba Kama out of courtesy, now burst out afresh in his quaint argumentative recitative.
On one of the black benches a shabby youth with very long hair and lank fleshless limbs shook his body violently to and fro while he vociferated the sentences of the Mishnah in the traditional argumentative singsong.
Should they profess themselves the antagonists of theology, and engage inargumentative exercises with theologians?
I conceive his meaning to be what follows, as to the unity of place: (if I mistake, I beg his pardon, professing it is not out of any design to play the Argumentative Poet.
To unravel even a part of this tangled web so as to expose its argumentative worthlessness, soon fills a page.
What a curious discovery, by the way, that an argumentative Epistle should differ in style from an historical Gospel!
The difficulty which has been occasionally felt in respect of the argumentative parts of St. Paul's Epistles, is considerable, and may not be overlooked.
We Catholics answer, and with reason, in the negative; but, since they cannot be brought to agree with us here, what argumentative ground is open to them?
It needed not the various passages which follow it in the work, constructed on the same argumentative model, to prove to us that he was not only an incognito, but an enigma.
Davis's opinion is not surpassed in argumentative power or in literary expression by anything in the annals of that great tribunal.
His speeches surprised both friends and enemies by their high tone, argumentative force, good temper, and versatility and vigor of expression.
The plain man's danger is that he apply them unthinkingly as universals: the formal logician's danger is that, seeing them to be inapplicable as universals, he dismisses them as being void of all argumentative force.
This is undeniable if we take this syllogism purely as an argumentative syllogism.
His advance could only be an argumentative advance: if his conclusion contained a grain more than was contained in the premisses, it was a sophistical trick, and the Respondent could draw back and withhold his assent.
Young readers would miss them from Logic: they appeal to the average argumentative boy.
Neither has it been since popular, although its pure spirit of Christianity should be acceptable to the religious, its moderation to the philosopher, and the excellence of the composition to all admirers of argumentative poetry.
The author displays, with the utmost art and energy of argumentative poetry, the reasons by which he was himself guided in adopting the Roman Catholic faith.
In the summer of 1822 I wrote my first argumentative essay.
Besides, we shall use these data for purely argumentative purposes, and no argument is in the least affected by a change in the thousands.
It is these in their entirety that distinguish the Negro so notably, and remove him toward the anthropoids; and over against this fact the occasional aberrations among the Whites have no argumentative weight whatever.
With his reply to Miss Nightingale's humble but argumentative questions, we are not here concerned.
She threw herself into the fray with an equipment of argumentative resource derived from her unequalled experience, and with a passionate conviction inspired by long brooding over a fixed ideal.
All those who witnessed this encounter, must remember how completely overbearing confidence, proudly asserted, was overcome by calm and superiorargumentative power, sound and clear political sense.
In short, after a lengthy discussion characterized by their brilliant eloquence and their argumentative strength, the supporters of the Federal Union of the thirteen States, under one Sovereignty, carried the day.
The speech was eminently argumentative and calm in its tone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "argumentative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
