S: (n) argument, argumentation, debate (a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal) "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"
S: (n) argument, literary argument (a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie) "the editor added the argument to the poem"
S: (n) argument, parameter ((computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program)
S: (n) argument (a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable)
S: (n) casuistry (argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading)
S: (n) policy (a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government) "they debated the policy or impolicy of the proposed legislation"