The phrase "a special argument" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific point or reasoning that is unique or significant in a discussion or debate.
Example: "In this case, we need to consider a special argument that highlights the importance of ethical considerations in our decision-making process."
Alternatives: "a unique point" or "a specific rationale".
This is not to make a special argument for sports.
Last month, the justices assembled for a special argument session on the new campaign finance law.
But there is a special argument to be made in this case.
We are not fans of price supports, including dairy subsidies, but there is a special argument to be made in the case of small-scale dairy farming in the Northeast.
The last time the court held a special argument session during its summer recess was in July 1974 for the Watergate tapes case that led to President Richard M. Nixon's resignation.
Rawls devises a special argument designed to generate principles for the regulation of the basic structure of society that we, contemplating this argument, should accept as principles that determine what must be true if the basic structure is to qualify as just.
Then last month, the justices assembled for a highly unusual special argument session on the constitutionality of the new campaign finance law, a case that counts as part of the past term.
The special argument device, which Rawls calls the "original position," is also deployed to select principles of individual conduct associated with the principles of justice, but these principles merely state that individuals should support just institutions.
"Neither do we consider terrorism or other special circumstances," he wrote, "where special arguments might be made for forms of preventive detention and for heightened deference to the judgments of the political branches with respect to matters of national security".
The special arguments of the skeptic are directed against particular theories in the three disciplines of Hellenistic philosophy: logic, physics, and ethics.
But absent special arguments that morality fails in the way they do, morality no less than psychology and biology can claim that experience may well provide confirmation for our moral claims (Sayre-McCord 1996).
