The phrase "argument apart" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you want to discuss a specific argument in isolation from others, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "When considering the evidence, we must analyze each argument apart to understand their individual strengths."
Alternatives: "argument separately" or "argument in isolation".
During the boom years, proponents of the flexible labour market argued that it attracted investment into the UK, but recession has blown this argument apart".
Given ample chance during a 13-day trial to offer an argument apart from prejudice, proponents of Proposition 8, the prohibition against same-sex marriage in California, found no evidence.
Now the news organisation is suing for compensation: "The Associated Press has determined that the photograph used in the poster is an AP photo and that its use required permission," said its spokesman.Daniel Solove takes this argument apart, and concludes that "The AP seems to be attempting to be money-grubbing here with this rather petty copyright claim".
My colleague Damian Carrington has written a blow-by-blow post tearing the argument apart: This willful idiocy is based on the fact that air temperatures at the Earth's surface have more or less plateaued since the record hot year in 1998.
Sometimes too it happens as with diagrams; for there we can sometimes analyse the figure, but not construct it again: so too in refutations, though we know on what the connexion of the argument depends, we still are at a loss to split the argument apart.
We've heard all this so often and decent-minded people are already picking your arguments apart.
Meanwhile, "amateurs", especially on the web, have run rings round professional journalists, recognising major stories before they do (as happened with Trent Lott's racist remarks) or tearing their arguments apart (as happened with CBS).Third, confidential sources are problematic when it comes to the public interest.
I spent some time taking these arguments apart in my columns "We Are All Blasphemers" and "Free Speech: Just a Recent Fad?" And certain academics joined me in defending the First Amendment with gusto, including Georgetown law professor David Cole in his piece "More Speech is Better" in The New York Review of Books.
