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/kˈaʊntəɹˌɑːɡjuːmənt/
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NOUN
- an argument offered in opposition to another argument
How To Use counterargument In A Sentence
- There are a lot of counterarguments to using more labor in China.
- But the counterargument is that it's just the way technology works — things replace things. The New Tech Collectibles
- Arguing against minimum wage laws because they harm small businesses or lead to rising prices opens us up to just the kind of counterargument so vividly pointed out in this story.
- A counterargument would stress that the greatest learning is derived from the inimitable, silence betrays cowardice, disaffiliation and indie culture give the lie to the unavoidability of affiliation, the literary field exists in many sites other than the academy, self-victimization is the reigning philosophy, program writers are more self-commodifying than the disaffiliated, the system purges internal feedback from dissenters, and the end of excellence is well in sight. Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught? The Systems-Theory Rationalizations Of An Insider
- One major counterargument is that by forcing people to act differently, there may have been essentially forced opportunities to re-evaluate stereotypes. The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion, Anti-Discrimination Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- To meet this challenge, Locke (and to an even greater extent Hume) offered what may be termed adequacy of the stimulus counterarguments. Disbelief
- The last counterargument is literally an ancient one. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Getting Medieval On Your Assets: Four Reasons Foreclosure Fraud Really, Really Matters
- The main counterargument is that a Kurdish-Shiite invading army would have made it even harder to deal with Sunnis after Saddam fell. Why Iraq Has No Army
- There are counterarguments - that winning in and of itself doesn't prove who's better and even that winning decisively doesn't mean that the same team would do so again if the teams were to meet next week. Christopher Liss: NFL Playoff Observations -- Divisional Round
- Certainly not the Board of Trustees," came the counterargument ," and certainly not your father. SUDDENLY