The phrase "extend the argument" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used when discussing a topic or issue and wanting to add further points or evidence to support a particular argument. Example: "To further strengthen our case, let's extend the argument by providing examples from other similar studies."
To extend the argument further than Rybczynski takes it, the great achievement of the millennium -- the discovery and decoding of the double helix of life, the geometry of the genome itself -- could not occur without the application of the single helix in the manufacture and operation of scientific instrumentation.
In that particular context, I said [his tone is lightly sarcastic], "No, you are right: only women should talk about women, only men should talk about men, only black people should talk about black people, only Jews should talk about Jews - if you extend the argument it becomes nonsensical".
Lovins and colleagues, in a new book, extend the argument to the U.S. as well: For the United States, Rocky Mountain Institute's new synthesis "Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era" shows how to run a 2.6-fold bigger 2050 economy with no oil, no coal, no nuclear energy, one-third less natural gas, and $5-trillion lower cost than business-as-usual.
Other opponents of directed evolution extend the argument further.
By addressing such conflicting views, we extend the argument beyond the surface of government ownership and investigate how different levels of government ownership influence a firm's R&D.
Next, we want to extend the argument of Theorem 1.1 to equation (1.1) with the (H^{1} -sub-critical nonlinearity: (1} -sub-critical
In effect, it allowed him to extend the arguments of the novels by other means -- to editorialize and express opinions on all the great topics of the day.
To extend the arguments of Cornish-Bowden, we suggest that the non-antibiotic drug should be an uncompetitive inhibitor.
In this work, we studied the relaxed formulation of the problem, and it remains open to extend the arguments to the (integrated) variational inequality.
Ron Rosenbaum, the author of "Explaining Hitler," even extended the argument to the German Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt, a former student and lover of Heidegger's.
Subsequent work, including Reconstruction, the Negro, and the New South, published by Harper & Row in 1971, extended the argument to emphasize the farreaching--if hotly contested--changes Reconstruction era civil rights policy effected.
