In reasoning and argument mapping, a counterargument is an objection to an objection. A counterargument can be used to rebut an objection to a premise...
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future, stronger challenge. Following exposure to weak counterarguments (e.g., counterarguments that have been paired with refutations), the receiver will...
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elections, but they did not gain control of Congress. The Republicans' counterargument that slavery was the mainstay of the enemy steadily gained support...
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Panspermia (section Counterarguments)
Panspermia (from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pan) 'all' and σπέρμα (sperma) 'seed') is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by space...
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from the campaign against Octavian. Publius Canidius Crassus made the counterargument that Cleopatra was funding the war effort and was a competent monarch...
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$40 billion) analysts, CIA (estimate of $40 billion in 2007) as well as counterarguments of Russian media. Polygraph concluded: There is uncertainty on the...
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argument mapping Inference objection, a special case of the above Counterargument, in informal logic, an objection to an objection Objection to the consideration...
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Substance theory, or substance–attribute theory, is an ontological theory positing that objects are constituted each by a substance and properties borne...
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According to data from 2010, low-income earners (those earning 12 million won or less) make up 37.8% of South Korea's labour force. Conversely, the highest...
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Anti-realism (section Counterarguments)
In analytic philosophy, anti-realism is the position that the truth of a statement rests on its demonstrability through internal logic mechanisms, such...
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protection to slavery. Supporters of the College have provided many counterarguments to the charges that it defended slavery. Abraham Lincoln, the president...
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argument, then objects to their own argument (with a counterargument), but then counters the counterargument with a final and novel argument. This form benefits...
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could. ... I would then wait a week ... I'd call him up, and I give my counterargument to what he had said, and he'd immediately shoot it down. So I had to...
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Argument from analogy (section Counterarguments)
Argument from analogy is a special type of inductive argument, where perceived similarities are used as a basis to infer some further similarity that has...
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containing scandium, yttrium, lutetium, and lawrencium and challenge the counterarguments as being inconsistent. By 1936, the pool of missing elements from hydrogen...
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A payday loan (also called a payday advance, salary loan, payroll loan, small dollar loan, short term, or cash advance loan) is a short-term unsecured...
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as more complex animals like mammals and other tetrapods do. As a counterargument, from a scientific viewpoint, there are functional areas in the brains...
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the marketplace should decide which processors they wanted. Intel's counterargument was that it would be too difficult to educate PC buyers on why Intel...
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element is not sensible, and therefore unacceptable." Poonen makes the counterargument that the natural notion for rings would be the direct product rather...
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Munich Airport (section Counterarguments)
Munich Airport (German: Flughafen München „Franz Josef Strauß“) (IATA: MUC, ICAO: EDDM) is an international airport serving Munich and Upper Bavaria. To...
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The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to the convictions of General Motors (GM) and related companies that were involved in the monopolizing of...
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Criticism of religion (section Counterarguments to arguments which state that religion is harmful to individuals)
Criticism of religion involves criticism of the validity, concept, or ideas of religion. Historical records of criticism of religion go back to at least...
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the hands of a body that "[lasted] but a day" before changing. Other counterarguments were that renowned senators could not have been elected directly and...
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Democrates Alter, and then the council listened to Las Casas read his counterarguments in the form of an "Apología". Sepúlveda argued that the subjugation...
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Umar Javeed, Sukarma Thapar, Aaqib Javeed vs. Google LLC and Ors. (section Google's counterarguments)
Umar Javeed, Sukarma Thapar, Aaqib Javeed vs. Google LLC and Ors. is a 2019 court case in which Google and Google India Private Limited were accused of...
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Chicago and Springfield, Missouri.[self-published source?] Arguments and counterarguments continued throughout February, including a proposal to split the proposed...
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The New York Harbor Storm-Surge Barrier is a proposed flood barrier system to protect the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary from storm surges. The proposed...
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Federalist No. 10 is an essay written by James Madison as the tenth of The Federalist Papers, a series of essays initiated by Alexander Hamilton arguing...
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things are the same if and only if they share all their properties. A counterargument is the idea that matter is not infinitely divisible, and thus that...
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Argument from poor design (section Counterarguments)
The argument from poor design, also known as the dysteleological argument, is an argument against the assumption of the existence of a creator God, based...
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