"decisive argument" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a strong and convincing point or reasoning that settles a debate or comes to a final conclusion on a topic. Example: The lawyer's decisive argument convinced the jury to acquit the defendant of all charges.
Is this a decisive argument?
But that wasn't the decisive argument, not in political Washington.
I completely forgot Hume's to my mind decisive argument against all evidence for the miraculous.
A toxic cocktail of dioxin, sewage, heavy metals and industrial chemicals left behind by the factories, tanneries, smelters and refineries that are now mostly hulking brick ruins, the Passaic is a pretty decisive argument against human perfectibility.
But if, like Williams, you believed that our only reasons for acting were our desires, then if a person desired bad or crazy things — to cause someone great pain; to cause himself great pain — there could be no decisive argument against pursuing them.
The enterprise's triple impact (social, environmental and economic) was a decisive argument for the jury.
As long as there are no decisive arguments for or against the existence of God, a certain number of smart people will go on believing in him, just as smart people reflexively believe in other things for which they have no knock-down philosophical arguments, like free will, or objective values, or the existence of other minds.
These theories emerge from the writings of Peter Abelard, where they are paired with Abelard's decisive arguments against them.
In that same year Burkert provided decisive arguments, which have led to a consensus that a core of the fragments of Philolaus are authentic.
To date, however, there are no strong decisive arguments to prefer CRRT or IHD as primary treatment for SAKI, except maybe in severely hemodynamically unstable patients (level 2B in the KDIGO guidelines) [45].
This amounts to admitting infinite explanatory and metaphysical dependence chains, but, since no decisive arguments against such chains exist, the externalist regress should not be viewed as vicious (Orilia 2006a, §7).
