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The phrase "historical argument" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a claim or reasoning based on historical evidence or events.
Example: "The historical argument presented in the paper highlights the significance of the Civil Rights Movement in shaping modern American society."
Alternatives: "historical reasoning" or "historical claim".
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She makes a historical argument.
However, the historical argument is actually the least interesting one.
One would expect such an important historical argument to be accompanied by substantial evidence.
Sociological critiques of "scientific truth" sometimes try to reach their radical conclusions by offering a crude analogue of Laudan's historical argument against scientific realism.
Instead of historical argument supported by evidence, or chronicle illuminated by interpretation, he gives us oracular assertion, supported by more oracular assertion.
However, Turnbull said the debate over whether the white settlement of Australia was an invasion was just a "historical argument about a word".
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There are good historical arguments.
This distracted from his interesting comparative historical arguments.
Einstein's four-page letter of June 13 1947 to Nehru focused on moral and historical arguments.
The prose, however, is readable and intelligent, and the author attempts some intriguing historical arguments.
The historical arguments that China offers in support of this are fragile, but that's not the point.
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