Ultimately a thesis or an argument must say something about the real world.
Conversely the argument "ornament is crime" does not say anything about function.
Several people who heard the argument said the exchange was as follows.
A second, completely separate argument says I should have had more children for the sake of those children themselves.
But, says the argument, we cannot let them off.
A second argument says that pacifism has no place in the face of extreme evil.
Then, says the argument, there is never any end of them, and being endless they must also be infinite.
Old argument, and his silence said it all for him.
Today's 90-minute hearing concluded the arguments on the privilege question, lawyers involved in the case said.
That argument says the people are too stupid to elect a leader.