Support for this assumption comes from a study by Stegmann, Weinberger, and Fischer (2011) that examined the relation between the use of subject matter knowledge in an argumentative activity and individual subject matter knowledge acquisition.
✒ On the subject of bands and rants – and argumentative Mondays, for that matter – there's just enough time to look over your responses to Friday's interview with musician Shaun Ryder, which read, in places, as if commenters had mistaken Simon Hattenstone's piece for a newly opened complaints department for Black Grape and Happy Mondays.
4. Analysis of argumentative exchanges in this study, conference presentations and audience responses.
He does not defend the concept of the subject, conceived as consciousness or an autonomous self, against postmodernists' attacks, but defends argumentative reason in inter-subjective communication against their experimental, avant-garde strategies.
Hamilton and Jefferson, the supposed models for his subjects, were both smart, argumentative and capable politicians.
Their results showed that the more subject matter knowledge was applied to a problem case in the argumentative activity, the more knowledge was acquired by the participating individuals.
A central notion in argument-based formalism is argumentative attack.
The ideological and even temperamental diversity within the elite leadership group gave the American founding a distinctly argumentative flavour that made all convictions, no matter how cherished, subject to abiding scrutiny that, like history itself, became an argument without end.
"We are bringing the spirit of science back to a subject that has become too argumentative and too contentious," Muller says, over a cup of tea.
As an argumentative so-and-so, it was an ideal subject for debating and discussing ideas, and that's what he nurtured.
