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Inchoateknowledge Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

argument

If you have a flimsy argument we also say it is tenuous, do we not?
1. What else can we say?
Fragile, weak,... ?
2. Do we say an argument is defeated? What else?
3. What do we say to mean an argument can not be defeated?
Irrefutable? strong? powerful? I think powerful means only that the argument is convincing, but not that it can not be defeated.
what else can we say?


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Tenuous is quite OK, but a bit academic; I would use weak in day-to-day conversations. Feeble, insubstantial, unsubstantial, insignificant would also do.

— Marius Hancu

  • Tenuous is quite OK, but a bit academic; I would use weak in day-to-day conversations.
  • Feeble, insubstantial, unsubstantial, insignificant would also do.
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Tenuous is quite OK, but a bit academic; I would use weak in day-to-day conversations.

Feeble, insubstantial, unsubstantial, insignificant
would also do.
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2. Do we say an argument is defeated? What else?
3. What do we say to mean an argument can not be defeated?
Irrefutable? strong? powerful? I think powerful means only that the argument is convincing, but not that it can not be defeated.
what else can we say?
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2. You can refute an argument, but that's not defeating it.
More familiarly, you can destroy an argument or poke holes in it.

3. In philosophy books you may come across the term "indefeasible argument", but there is no common word for it that I know of.

CJ
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The fact is, not matter how strong your argument, there will always be someone who will try to counter it. Nothing is truly safe from rebuttal. (As we've seen here
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Watertight argument: this is the collocation I have been looking for.
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Watertight argument: there are no faults in it.
Irrefutable argument: it can't be rejected/denied.

The accent is different.
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