argumento

n. argument; plot, story; ammunition; scenario

v. argue

n. argument, plea

v. argue, reason, remonstrate

= argument, contention, plot, point, thesis, storyline, thread, peg.
Nota: En sentido figurado, razón o motivo utilizado como argumento para defender una actuación concreta.
Ex: A précis is an account which restricts itself to the essential points in an argument.
Ex: The main contentions are that it would serve both the long-term interests of authors and publishers and the interests of users of information.
Ex: His work is criticized for its triviality, quantity, linguistically impoverished style, anemia of characterization, and cliched, stereotyped ideas and plots.
Ex: Parts of the abstract are written in the informative style, whilst those points which are of less significance are treated indicatively.
Ex: A praeses is a faculty moderator of an academic disputation, who normally proposes a thesis and participates in the ensuing disputation.
Ex: Yet the aficionado of romantic fiction will be able to distinguish with ease between the novels of two authors whose storylines seem, to the outsider, to be virtually identical.
Ex: The thread linking these giants is the acknowledgement that libraries exist to serve their users.
Ex: The concepts currently being floated by UNESCO are such as will make convenient pegs to hang pleas for resources for bibliographic and library development to national governments.
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* ambas partes del argumento = both sides of the fence.
* ambos lados del argumento = both sides of the fence.
* apoyar el argumento de Uno = support + Posesivo + case, buttress + Posesivo + case.
* apoyar un argumento = support + contention.
* argumento científico = scientific argument.
* argumento comercial = business case.
* argumento convincente = compelling argument.
* argumento de venta = sales pitch.
* argumento en contra = counter-argument [counterargument].
* argumento + girar en torno a = argument + revolve around.
* argumento principal = main argument.
* argumento que presenta los dos puntos de vista = two-sided argument.
* argumento que presenta sólo un punto de vista = one-sided argument.
* argumentos = ammunition.
* argumentos a favor o en contra = arguments for (and/or) against.
* argumentos en contra = counter-evidence.
* corroborar un argumento = substantiate + claim.
* defender el argumento de Uno = support + Posesivo + case, buttress + Posesivo + case.
* defender un argumento = support + view.
* demostrar el argumento de Uno = prove + Posesivo + point, prove + point, make + Posesivo + case.
* demostrar un argumento = substantiate + claim.
* encadenamiento de argumentos = threading.
* formular un argumento = advance + argument, put forward + argument.
* invalidar un argumento = invalidate + argument.
* presentar argumentos a favor = make + a case for.
* presentar argumentos a favor de = present + arguments in favour of.
* presentar un argumento = advance + argument.
* rebatir un argumento = counter + argument.
* respaldar el argumento de uno = back up + story.
* respaldar un argumento = back + argument, buttress + argument, buttress + Posesivo + case.

= argue, be + Posesivo + contention.
Ex: Cutter argued that when it could be established that the second term was definitely more significant then inversion of headings was acceptable.
Ex: It is our contention that an understanding of such basic principles is fundamental to an appreciation of the many and varied contexts that the individual is likely to encounter.
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* argumentar a favor de = put + the case for, present + case for, make + a case for.
* argumentar las razones de Uno = argue + Posesivo + case.
* saber argumentar Algo convincentemente = make + a business case.
* se argumenta que = the argument goes that.