Look at this sentence:
The neighbourhood committee issued a forceful argument in favour of the council’s proposed library expansion.
Select the definition of argument that the sentence uses.
argument \ah-gyuh-muhnt\ noun pl arguments 1. a line of reasoning that supports a view: The lawyer presented her closing argument to the judge and the jury. 2. a disagreement between two people: Whenever Mr and Mrs Bell discuss politics, they always end up in an argument. 3. a summary of a literary work: A short argument preceded the novel. — from Latin (argumentum)