The phrase "address an argument" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing or responding to a specific point or claim made in a debate, essay, or discussion.
Example: "In her essay, she takes the time to address an argument that many people overlook."
Alternatives: "respond to an argument" or "tackle an argument".
Apparently addressing an argument by Melissus, a follower of Parmenides, the atomists paired the term for 'nothing' with what it negates, 'thing,' and claimed that in a phrase typical of the atomists the one 'no more' exists than the other (DK 67A6).
Of the country's current church-state controversies, including public subsidies for religious education in college, which the court will address in an argument scheduled for December, only the debate over the public display of the Ten Commandments has generated equivalent passion.
Sihung Hung Hoang, of no fixed address, had an argument with the victim at the Beijing City takeaway in Congleton.
The best Inaugural Addresses make an argument for something.
Among the couples who split, the vast majority took far longer to address a recent argument than those who stayed together, often leaving each other to stew in individual thoughts for hours or days after a fight, Gottman told Business Insider.
Justice Breyer declined to address a second argument made by the company — that the law applies only to complaints made to the government and not to private employers — because the company had failed to assert the argument adequately when the case first reached the Supreme Court.
The analytic study of Socrates, like analytic philosophy more generally, is fueled by the arguments in the texts typically addressing a single argument or set of arguments, whether in a single text or across texts; its origins are in the Anglo-American philosophical tradition.
My recent piece on the scandals of prisons and American incarceration has received so much reaction that I thought I might take advantage of the magazine's Web presence to clarify some points, answer some mail, bring up a few books, and generally address a few arguments that I didn't manage to fit into the essay proper, printed, as it was, in … print.
By Adam Gopnik February 6 , 2012My recent piece on the scandals of prisons and American incarceration has received so much reaction that I thought I might take advantage of the magazine's Web presence to clarify some points, answer some mail, bring up a few books, and generally address a few arguments that I didn't manage to fit into the essay proper, printed, as it was, in … print.
An explanation and an argument addressed to something more than people who cling to their guns and religion, people who are bought off by big money, people who swallow the ridiculous ads they see on TV.
