The phrase "addressing an argument" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing or responding to a specific point or claim made in a debate, essay, or discussion.
Example: "In her essay, she is addressing an argument about climate change and its impact on global economies."
Alternatives: "responding to a claim" or "tackling a point".
Lane attacks stimulus advocates for failing to address an argument that I actually discussed, at length, in my last column but one.
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.
The year ended with an important publication addressing a decade-long argument about the value of selective decontamination of the digestive tract versus standard care in a general ICU population.
1558, 71 L.Ed.2d 783, in which we addressed a similar argument.
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.
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.
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.
Section 8 addresses an important parity argument for the rationality of certain religious beliefs given by William Alston, showing that this argument fails given the tenability of DWR as an account of the rationality of perceptual beliefs.
