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Proof is a hyponym of argument.



As nouns the difference between argument and proof

is that argument is a fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason while proof is an effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.

As an adjective proof is

used in proving or testing.

As a verb proof is

to proofread.

argument

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
  • * Ray
  • There is no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity.
  • A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
  • A process of reasoning.
  • * John Locke
  • The argument is not about things, but names.
  • (philosophy, logic) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
  • *
  • (mathematics) The independent variable of a function.
  • (programming) A value, or reference to a value, passed to a function.
  • * {{quote-web, date = 2011-07-20
  • , author = Edwin Mares , title = Propositional Functions , site = The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , url = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/propositional-function , accessdate = 2012-07-15 }}
    In ‘The Critic of Arguments’ (1892), Peirce adopts a notion that is even closer to that of a propositional function. There he develops the concept of the ‘rhema’. He says the rhema is like a relative term, but it is not a term. It contains a copula, that is, when joined to the correct number of arguments it produces an assertion. For example, ‘__ is bought by __ from __ for __’ is a four-place rhema. Applying it to four objects a'', ''b'', ''c'', and ''d'' produces the assertion that ''a'' is bought by ''b'' from ''c'' for ''d (ibid. 420).
    Parameters are like labeled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks.
  • (programming) A parameter in a function definition; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
  • (linguistics) Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
  • *
  • In numerous works over the past two decades, beginning with the pioneering work of Gruber (1965), Fillmore (1968a), and Jackendoff (1972), it has been argued that each Argument' (i.e. Subject or Complement) of a Predicate bears a particular ''thematic role'' (alias ''theta-role'', or ''θ-role'' to its Predicate), and that the set of ''thematic functions'' which ' Arguments can fulfil are drawn from a highly restricted, finite, universal set.
  • (astronomy) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends.
  • The altitude is the argument of the refraction.
  • The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You and love are still my argument .
  • * Jeffrey
  • the abstract or argument of the piece
  • * Milton
  • [shields] with boastful argument portrayed
  • Matter for question; business in hand.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Sheathed their swords for lack of argument .

    Usage notes

    * (formal parameter in a function definition) Some authors regard use of "argument" to mean "formal parameter" to be imprecise, preferring that argument'' refers only to the value that is used to instantiate the ''parameter'' at runtime, while ''parameter refers only to the name in the function definition that will be instantiated.

    Synonyms

    * (programming value) actual argument * See also * See also

    Meronyms

    * (logic) proposition, premise, conclusion

    Derived terms

    * ad hominem argument * argumentable * argumental * argumentation * argumentative * argumentatively * argumentativeness * argument form * argument from design * argumentive * argumentize * argumentless * cosmological argument * etymological argument * ontological argument * teleological argument

    proof

    English

    (wikipedia proof)

    Noun

  • (countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
  • * 1591 , , ''Humorous Poems ,
  • But the false Fox most kindly played his part,
    For whatsoever mother-wit or art
    Could work he put in proof . No practice sly,
    No counterpoint of cunning policy,
    No reach, no breach, that might him profit bring.
    But he the same did to his purpose wring.
  • * c. 1633 , , Act 1, Scene 1,
  • France I more praise and love; you are, my lord,
    Yourself for horsemanship much famed; and there
    You shall have many proofs to shew your skill.
  • * 1831 , , A System of Chemistry of Inorganic Bodies , Volume 2,
  • A given quantity of the spirits was poured upon a quantity of gunpowder in a dish and set on fire. If at the end of the combustion, the gunpowder continued dry enough, it took fire and exploded; but if it had been wetted by the water in the spirits, the flame of the alcohol went out without setting the powder on fire. This was called the proof .
  • (uncountable) The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.
  • * c.1603 , ,
  • I'll have some proof .
  • * 1841 , '' in ''Essays: First Series ,
  • It was a grand sentence of Emanuel Swedenborg, which would alone indicate the greatness of that man's perception, — "It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence."
  • * 1990 October 16, ,
  • Faith, faith is an island in the setting sun
    But proof , yes
    Proof is the bottom line for everyone
  • The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or doesn't yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
  • (obsolete) Experience of something.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
  • But the chaste damzell, that had never priefe / Of such malengine and fine forgerye, / Did easely beleeve her strong extremitye.
  • (uncountable, obsolete) Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
  • (countable, printing) A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
  • (countable, logic, mathematics) A sequence of statements consisting of axioms, assumptions, statements already demonstrated in another proof, and statements that logically follow from previous statements in the sequence, and which concludes with a statement that is the object of the proof.
  • (countable, mathematics) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb , 5.
  • (obsolete) Armour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proof.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (US) A measure of the alcohol content of liquor. Originally, in Britain, 100 proof' was defined as 57.1% by volume (not used anymore). In the US, 100 '''proof''' means that the alcohol content is 50% of the total volume of the liquid, and thus, absolute alcohol would be 200 ' proof .
  • Hyponyms

    * testimony * evidence * reason * argument * trial * demonstration

    Derived terms

    * artist's proof * burden of proof * conditional proof * prooflike * proof reader * proof of concept

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Used in proving or testing.
  • a proof''' load''; ''a '''proof charge
  • Firm or successful in resisting.
  • proof against harm
    water'''proof'''''; '''''bombproof .
  • * 1671 , '', 1820, Dr Aiken (biographies), ''Select Works of the British Poets , page 125,
  • And opportunity I here have had / To try thee, sift thee, and confess have found thee / Proof against all temptation as a rock / Of adamant, and, as a centre, firm :
  • * 1790 , , Reflections on the Revolution in France'', 1803, ''The Works of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke , Volume 5, page426,
  • This was a good, ?tout proof article of faith, pronounced under an anathema, by the venerable fathers of this philo?ophick ?ynod.
  • (of alcoholic liquors) Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content.
  • Derived terms

    * * bulletproof * mothproof * sale-proof * foolproof * childproof * waterproof * prooftext * shatter-proof

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To proofread.
  • (lb) To make resistant, especially to water.
  • To allow to rise (of yeast-containing dough).
  • To test the activeness of (yeast).