| Title: | Dispute, argument, debate, altercation |
| Original Title: | Contestation, Dispute, Débat, Altercation |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 4 (1754), p. 112 |
| Author: | Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (biography) |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Hansen [McGill University] |
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| Citation (MLA): | d'Alembert, Jean-Baptiste le Rond. "Dispute, argument, debate, altercation." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Hansen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2015. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.706>. Trans. of "Contestation, Dispute, Débat, Altercation," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 4. Paris, 1754. |
| Citation (Chicago): | d'Alembert, Jean-Baptiste le Rond. "Dispute, argument, debate, altercation." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Hansen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.706 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Contestation, Dispute, Débat, Altercation," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 4:112 (Paris, 1754). |
Dispute, argument, debate, altercation. An argument usually refers to a conversation between two people of differing opinions on some matter, and is called an altercation when there is bitterness involved. A dispute is an argument among several people, or between two people of importance, on a subject of significance, or between two individuals engaged in a judicial affair. A debate is a tumultuous argument between several people. An argument must never degenerate into an altercation . The kings of France and England are in dispute on some article of a treaty. There were great disputes at the Council of Trent on the matter of residence. Peter and John are in dispute on the limits of their properties. The English parliament is prone to great debates .