The phrase "argumentative question" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a question that is intended to provoke a debate or challenge someone's viewpoint.
Example: "The teacher posed an argumentative question to stimulate discussion among the students about the ethics of artificial intelligence."
Alternatives: "provocative question" or "contentious question".
Leading, misleading, and argumentative questions, for example, are not permitted.
He was gently admonished by Judge LeRoy F. Millette Jr. of Circuit Court for leading witnesses, for probing irrelevant issues, for asking argumentative questions.
Mr. Milosevic, undeterred, tried to pose lengthy argumentative questions to prove that there had been a wave of violence against Serbs in Kosovo, but Judge Richard May intervened.
Argumentative Alice questions everything to turn chaos into reason, like children struggling with baffling adult demands.
At one point, Giuliani declared that Dorismond had been no "altar boy"; later, upon being advised by a reporter that Dorismond had, in fact, been an altar boy, he refused to comment, calling the question "argumentative".... Giuliani is the only politician I have ever interviewed who gives the impression of being more cautious and deliberate in private than in public.
On Room for Debate, it's me versus Bruce Feiler applying our most powerful argumentative skills to the question: Should You Bribe Your Kids?
Students can hold a structured debate or write argumentative essays using the questions below about the legality and effectiveness of drone attacks: Below, some Times reporting and opinion pieces to help students conduct their research on drone attacks:.
Questions for Discussion and Writing Going Further Hold a class debate or write an argumentative essay answering the key question above about Mr. Snowden.
"At the risk of sounding argumentative, let me answer the question directly," Mr. Hevesi told the small crowd seated outside on 125th Street at a recent mayoral forum sponsored by the Harlem Business Alliance.
He deploys the latter distinction in order to identify two distinct argumentative strategies for answering the question of the "possibility of pure mathematics".
