The phrase "a constructive argument" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a debate or discussion that is aimed at building understanding or finding solutions rather than simply winning a point.
Example: "During the meeting, we had a constructive argument about the best approach to improve our marketing strategy."
Alternatives: "a productive discussion" or "a positive debate".
I would even go further and submit that someone who has obtained a doctorate in the arts or sciences will generally be more skilled in critical thinking and making a constructive argument than the average person.
To have any foundational significance it is also required that one can give a constructive argument for transfinite induction up to αT.
In rhetorical structure, the text presents what might be termed a "constructive" argument, with a complex style of presentation indebted to what has been termed "situated argumentation," similar to the views developed by contemporary Oxford logician and rhetorician Richard Whately (1787 1863) (Depew 2009 in Ruse and Richards 2009).
It is important to note that if you are a third speaker on an opposing team, you are not creating a constructive argument.
Alkali: Try to engage in constructive argument about Nigeria's politics with a lunatic!
There was a lot of talk about the cost of living, and there was more opposition-bashing than constructive argument.
Establish a common source of villainy This will encourage people to step beyond the tepid narrative of constructive argument: listening, dialogue, tolerance, etc.
But what Mr. Ginsberg calls "doctor-patient dialogue" and what Mr. Malone calls "adult conversation" often involve the give-and-take that characterizes constructive argument.
Your parents will be more likely to give in to the good and constructive argument.
An existence theorem for a fixed point of an α-nonexpansive mapping of a nonempty bounded, closed and convex subset of a uniformly convex Banach space has been recently established by Aoyama and Kohsaka with a non-constructive argument.
An existence theorem for a fixed point of an α-nonexpansive mapping T of a nonempty bounded, closed and convex subset C of a uniformly convex Banach space E has been recently established by Aoyama and Kohsaka [2] with a non-constructive argument.
