Statement
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A declaration or remark. A presentation of opinion or position. A document that summarizes financial activity. An instruction in a computer program.
Example sentence: The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
Argument
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason:A verbal dispute; a quarrel.A process of reasoning.A series of statements organized so that the final statement is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding statements, which function as premises.The independent variable of a function.A value, or reference to a value, passed to a function.A parameter in a function definition; a formal argument.Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
Example sentence: The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.