The phrase "argued to be capable" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a claim or assertion about someone's or something's abilities or potential, often in academic or analytical contexts.
Example: "The new technology is argued to be capable of significantly improving energy efficiency in homes."
Alternatives: "claimed to be able" or "asserted to possess the ability".
Burge (1996; see also Shoemaker 1988) argues that to be capable of "critical reasoning" one must be able to recognize one's own attitudes, knowledgeably evaluating, identifying, and reviewing one's beliefs, desires, commitments, suppositions, etc., where these mental states are known to be the states they are.
That may produce a new dimension to the saying that a lawyer is supposed to be capable of arguing both sides of any case, or it may require the solicitor general to reverse the office's positions in some cases, usually a rare event.
Within a decade, he argues, we will be capable of producing "robustly rejuvenated" mice, which will prepare public opinion for something more ambitious.
O'Neill yesterday insisted his team would be aiming to win, arguing: "Bosnia are capable of scoring, they could wipe that advantage, that away goal that we have, within minutes of the game [starting], and then, suddenly, they are on the front foot.
But anyone who argues that demands must be capable of being satisfied assumes that there is someone or some existing institutional power to whom one could appeal to have one's demands satisfied.
Locke argued that humans are capable of living (mostly) cooperatively without government regulation.
He supported the independent republic of Haïti created in 1804, and his abolitionist work De la littérature des Nègres (1808; "The Literature of Black Writers") argued that blacks were capable of the same intellectual attainments as whites.
Philosophers have asked not whether animals think or speak but whether they suffer; but some within the animal rights movement have argued that animals are capable of many of the same intellectual feats as humans.
It is not thus argued that children are capable now and are illegitimately denied their rights.
