The phrase "a general argument" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a broad or overarching point that applies to a variety of situations or topics.
Example: "In the debate about climate change, a general argument is that human activity significantly contributes to global warming."
Alternatives: "a broad assertion" or "a universal claim".
In concert, these findings inform a general argument that hydrologic fragmentation and the novel ecosystems generated as a consequence drives widespread evolutionary divergence in a variety of wild fish populations.
Bush's speech was not limited to Iraq; he gave us a general argument about the Middle East, terrorism, and democracy.
Its parameters are so broad and slack that they encompass practically any shortish passage of non-fiction which makes a general argument.
Nor was it a general argument that human sexual bonding should never be totally sundered from the procreative dimension that is its biological base and a natural outcome.
Marquis's account, which is centered on the concept of a fetus's "future of value," aims to be a general argument for the immorality of abortion, but one which acknowledges classic hard cases such as rape, incest and the endangerment of a mother's life.
He did not repeat his administration's prewar assertions that Mr. Hussein had ties to Al Qaeda, but made a general argument about the threat from those who hate, among others, "Christians and Jews and every Muslim who does not share their narrow and violent vision".
There is also an abstract general argument possible for a whole class of combination functions, namely, the combination functions that are (1) symmetric in their arguments and that are (2) monotonic: 1.
Aid, they say, can save good firms to fight another day.Although some supply chains have choke points, that is a weak general argument for sectoral aid.
There is a more general argument about the value of pluralism in the market, but this is hard to turn into criteria that apply in specific cases.
Brentano also offered a quite general argument for reism based on the idea of intentionality as direction of thinking (and other mental acts).
