The phrase "argument at the beginning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the initial point or claim made in a discussion, essay, or debate.
Example: "In her essay, she presented a strong argument at the beginning that set the tone for the rest of her analysis."
Alternatives: "initial argument" or "opening argument".
I'm also somewhat surprised we're still having this 'African aid' argument at the beginning of 2013, after the eloquent arguments of books like Dead Aid and The Fastest Billion.
During the course of legal argument at the beginning of this trial, information came to light which meant that we were no longer satisfied that there was sufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction".
In what might be called a booty-off, with the back wall bathed in violet, the two took turns shaking their posteriors, each isolation accompanied by a bravado-filled exclamation: "Bam!" As in the fragmented argument at the beginning of the dance, the competition was imbued with humor, and performed expertly, down to Oliver's virtuosic slow-motion rendition.
The well-known argument at the beginning of the first edition attack on the second paralogism (A352) focuses on the unity of consciousness at a given time (among other things) and what can (or rather, cannot) be inferred from it about the nature of the mind (a topic to which we will return below).
You might find that placing your least important argument at the beginning drains your essay of vitality.
That weakened their argument from the beginning.
What is odd about these questions, which shrewdly invite a second viewing, is that they seem to come at the end of the argument about "Inception" rather than at the beginning.
He does not seem to realise that the purpose of a long book is to build steadily to a culminating revelation, rather than to go on and on until it stops, leaving the argument exactly where it was at the beginning.
To in a sense come almost to the heart of my argument right at the beginning, I have come to believe that the class system of the US operates more ruthlessly efficiently than the class system of the United Kingdom.
Theorem A implies the existence of a stable invariant curve (phi^{s} : (-delta,0] rightarrow (-infty,0]) by the same argument used at the beginning of the proof of Proposition 1.
