The phrase "a distinct argument" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a clear and separate point or reasoning in a discussion or debate.
Example: "In her essay, she presented a distinct argument that challenged the prevailing theories on climate change."
Alternatives: "a clear argument" or "a separate argument".
A related but distinct argument for closed borders focuses on the distribution of state benefits like welfare payments and health insurance.
Facing sudden change -- proposals for a slender 31-story apartment tower by the French architect Jean Nouvel as well as a shorter, bulkier hotel by Stephen B. Jacobs -- the residents of this far west outpost of Greenwich Village have embraced their own distinct argument for preserving its character.
And in this court he presses the distinct argument that the government's claim, even if true, would not implicate any authority for holding him that would satisfy 18 U. S. C. "S 4001(a) (Nondetention Act), which bars imprisonment or detention of a citizen "except pursuant to an act of Congress".
Pascal presents a number of distinct arguments (see the article on Pascal's wager), but one particularly notable version relies on expected utility considerations.
Both sides in the battle have marshaled distinct arguments, and both said their only goal was to protect patients.
I want to emphasize the point that the various arguments that I have been talking about so far, although they have this common strand — "inference to the best explanation" — are each separate and distinct arguments.
In "Ways of Seeing," John Berger makes several distinct arguments about the visual culture in which we live, exploring how forces bigger than we are (desire, commerce, history) shape how we participate in that visual culture: how we see, what we see, and what we make of it.
Strawson developed three distinct arguments for compatibilism, arguments quite different from those the classical compatibilists endorsed.
There are two distinct arguments that Everett seems to have had in mind.
In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant presents two distinct arguments for it.
