In linguistics, an argument is an expression that helps complete the meaning of a predicate, the latter referring in this context to a main verb and its auxiliaries.
In mathematics, the argument of a complex number z, denoted arg, is the angle between the positive real axis and the line joining the origin and z, represented as a point in the complex plane, shown as φ {\displaystyle \varphi } in Figure 1.
A musical argument is a means of creating tension through the relation of expressive content and musical form: Traditional dialectal music is representational: the musical form relates to an expressive content and is a means of creating a growing tension; this is what is usually called the musical argument.
Das Argument: Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften is a bimonthly German academic journal covering philosophy and social sciences from a Marxist viewpoint.
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