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The phrase "a very subtle argument" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a point of view or reasoning that is nuanced and not immediately obvious.
Example: "In her essay, she presented a very subtle argument that challenged the conventional wisdom on the topic."
Alternatives: "a highly nuanced argument" or "a delicate argument".
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"The broken window theory, which was a very subtle argument for police discretion, was being represented as zero tolerance … which was used in a pejorative sense," Kelling, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said in an interview.
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This position was the point of departure for a critique, often conducted with very subtle argument, of the ideas of such dogmatic theologians as al-Ashʿarī or Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī, such philosophers as Avicenna and Averroës, or such mystics as Ibn al-ʿArabī.
Buridan, for example, deploys this distinction in a very subtle analysis of some extremely obscure arguments in Aristotle (Knuuttila 2001).
In a very subtle way".
"This is a very subtle process".
But that's a very subtle tweak.
It's a very subtle art.
That's a very subtle thing".
It's a very subtle performance".
Fate is a very subtle, a very sensitive system.
Atmospheric, beautiful, a very subtle story of a peculiar haunting.
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