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  2. Victor Reppert - Wikipedia

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    Victor Reppert (born 1953) is an American philosopher best known for his development of the "argument from reason".He is the author of C.S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea (2003) and numerous academic papers in journals such as Christian Scholars' Review, International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, Philo, and Philosophia Christi.

  3. Argument from reason - Wikipedia

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    The argument from reason is a transcendental argument against metaphysical naturalism and for the existence of God (or at least a supernatural being that is the source of human reason). The best-known defender of the argument is C. S. Lewis. Lewis first defended the argument at length in his 1947 book, Miracles: A Preliminary Study.

  4. Argument - Wikipedia

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    An argument is a series of sentences, statements, or propositions some of which are called premises and one is the conclusion. [1]

  5. Parameter (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    In the most common case, call by value, a parameter acts within the subroutine as a new local variable initialized to the value of the argument (a local (isolated) copy of the argument if the argument is a variable), but in other cases, e.g. call by reference, the argument variable supplied by the caller can be affected by actions within the ...

  6. Glossary of computer science - Wikipedia

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    Also formal argument. In computer programming , a special kind of variable , used in a subroutine to refer to one of the pieces of data provided as input to the subroutine. [ b ] These pieces of data are the values [ 159 ] [ 160 ] [ 161 ] of the arguments (often called actual arguments or actual parameters ) with which the subroutine is going ...

  7. Modus ponens - Wikipedia

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    The form of a modus ponens argument is a mixed hypothetical syllogism, with two premises and a conclusion: If P, then Q. P. Therefore, Q. The first premise is a conditional ("if–then") claim, namely that P implies Q. The second premise is an assertion that P, the antecedent of the conditional claim, is the case.

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  9. Argument (complex analysis) - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1. This Argand diagram represents the complex number lying on a plane.For each point on the plane, arg is the function which returns the angle . In mathematics (particularly in complex analysis), the argument of a complex number z, denoted arg(z), 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 in ...