The phrase "a factual argument" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to an argument that is based on facts and evidence rather than opinions or emotions. Example: He presented a factual argument supported by statistics and research to prove his point.
But even if this longstanding trend were to be reversed ― which seems unlikely under President Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress ― Hemenway isn't sure a stronger factual argument would necessarily persuade everyone that gun laws work.
The fact that some of the properties of a chemical compound could, by simple juxtaposition, be derived from those of the elements (the molecular weight, for example, equals the simple sum of the respective atomic weights) was a strong factual argument in favour of the principle.
We were having a dumb factual argument, one type of the worthless, energy-draining, stress-inducing fights I discuss with my couple mediation clients and write about in one chapter of Fight Less, Love More.
For Coetzee, the result reflected a debasement of Britain's political culture: the traducing, with media complicity, of rational discourse by a leave campaign that targeted the very idea of factual argument.
Secondly, he told and directed me to attempt through factual argument- that is, through appeals to reason-to have this brutal and completely senseless order rescinded or at least mitigated in its effects as far as possible.
His sole factual argument against this is "On the other hand, when I watch Comcast and Verizon, in our serving area here, slugging it out on television with their ads, boy there's a lot of competition going on there". Well, gee whiz!
His long harangue is based on deliberately misconstruing words, because he has no logical or factual argument against the truth: businesses do benefit from taxpayer-financed infrastructure.
