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...

future, stronger challenge. Following exposure to weak counterarguments (e.g., counterarguments that have been paired with refutations), the receiver will...

elections, but they did not gain control of Congress. The Republicans' counterargument that slavery was the mainstay of the enemy steadily gained support...

argument—the position in favor and the opposing viewpoint. Acknowledging the counterargument is a strategy in this type of writing. By distinguishing and minimizing...

argument mapping Inference objection, a special case of the above Counterargument, in informal logic, an objection to an objection Objection to the consideration...

as more complex animals like mammals and other tetrapods do. As a counterargument, from a scientific viewpoint, there are functional areas in the brains...

$40 billion) analysts, CIA (estimate of $40 billion in 2007) as well as counterarguments of Russian media. Polygraph concluded: There is uncertainty on the...

Allegations of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and other political prisoners in China have raised concern within the international...

Criticism of religion involves criticism of the validity, concept, or ideas of religion. Historical records of criticism of religion go back to at least...

of objection vary in whether an objection is always an argument (or counterargument) or may include other moves such as questioning. An objection to an...

Substance theory, or substance–attribute theory, is an ontological theory positing that objects are constituted each by a substance and properties borne...

from the campaign against Octavian. Publius Canidius Crassus made the counterargument that Cleopatra was funding the war effort and was a competent monarch...

Panspermia (from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pan) 'all' and σπέρμα (sperma) 'seed') is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the universe, distributed by space...

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...

a patient's symptoms could be caused by several diseases. It is a counterargument to misapplying Occam's razor in the medical profession. A common version...

especially in the context of Sacher-Masoch's Venus In Furs. Deleuze's counterargument is that the tendency toward masochism is based on intensified desire...

A linguistic universal is a pattern that occurs systematically across natural languages, potentially true for all of them. For example, All languages have...

The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to the convictions of General Motors (GM) and related companies that were involved in the monopolizing of...

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...

Responsible drug use seeks to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks associated with psychoactive drug use. For illegal psychoactive drugs that are...

Generalized phrase structure grammar (GPSG) is a framework for describing the syntax and semantics of natural languages. It is a type of constraint-based...

Coblin have been in doubt of a taxonomic grouping of Xiang. However, counterargument suggests that shared innovations can be identified for Xiang. Prehistorically...

Hindi imposition is a form of linguistic imperialism in which the use of Modern Standard Hindi is preferred in Indian states that do not use or desire...

Laudato si' (Praise Be to You) is the second encyclical of Pope Francis, subtitled "on care for our common home". In it, the Pope criticizes consumerism...

In analytic philosophy, anti-realism is the position that the truth of a statement rests on its demonstrability through internal logic mechanisms, such...

The Neolithic decline was a rapid collapse in populations between about 3450 and 3000 BCE during the Neolithic period in western Eurasia. The specific...

theories also support these mathematical theories. According to a counterargument by Maddy, the theses of naturalism and confirmational holism that make...

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...

Munich Airport (German: Flughafen München „Franz Josef Strauß“) (IATA: MUC, ICAO: EDDM) is an international airport serving Munich and Upper Bavaria, southern...

containing scandium, yttrium, lutetium, and lawrencium and challenge the counterarguments as being inconsistent. By 1936, the pool of missing elements from hydrogen...