When used in debate, arguments are as much a matter of rhetoric as logic, bringing in partisanship, special pleading, emotive language, and overt and covert tactical manoeuvring. See Dialectic , Diatribe , Fallacy , Logic , Polemic , Proposition , Rationalization , Rhetoric .
Arguments have various semantic roles such as agent , patient , and instrumental .
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