The phrase "argument lies" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the location or basis of an argument, often in a context where the validity or truth of the argument is being examined.
Example: "The strength of the debate hinges on where the argument lies within the broader context of the issue."
Alternatives: "the argument rests" or "the argument is based".
The biggest problem with his argument lies in his view of "assimilation".
At the heart of (t)his argument lies the assumption that markets are "perfectly competitive".
The core of Trump's argument lies in his having signed a number of executive orders.
The fallacy of this argument lies in the assumption that the statute stands no better than if directed against the pure nonfeasance of singly omitting to contract.
The core of Dennett's argument lies in his refutation of John Searle's famous Chinese Room thought experiment, which had been intended to demonstrate the irreducibility of consciousness.
The stronger argument lies in the fact that the selection for these positions bypassed 52% of the population, clearly compromising their search for the very best talent.
However deeply the eminent guest had thought through the counter-arguments and rejoinders, young Mr Nozick could be relied on to spot a hole in the defences and work away at it until the structure of argument lay in ruins.
Parliament wasn't working.At the heart of your argument lay the following assertion: "Only the blessed accident of a hung Parliament…at the next or some future election can lead to reforms of parliamentary practice, to greater accountability and to the constitutional checks on minority parliamentary rule that Britain now lacks.
The crux of Jordan's argument lay in the fact that the gene for our red and green cone types lies on the X chromosome.
At the heart of the argument, lie competing views of what France's vaunted but failing model of education should be about.
with argz denoting the principal value of the argument lying in the open-closed interval ( − π, π ]. Surely, all these 2n complex numbers μ m are different. Those with even m generate, via the relation λ m + α = μ m, just n different roots λ m to (14).
