That’s true, but is that the meaning of argue that the author was referring to? Do you see a difference between arguing for something (making a case) and arguing with someone (contradicting them and saying they’re wrong)?
sometimes a conversation is just a conversation and not a debate.
Your very existence is an argument against chaos. Your very individuality is an argument against other individualities.
By simply existing, you argue your conscious view of the world.
Even silence in response to a comment, statement, or idea espoused around you is in itself an argument.
Waking up in the morning is an argument.
These are all arguments, in that you believe these are the right things to do. You are taking a position merely by moving your arm because you believe that is the thing that you should do.
Every conscious thought you have is an argument, that said thought is correct.
Even your assertion that someone is not arguing, is an argument.
Not arguing is an argument, for it is a position against arguing the point.
The universe is defined by order. Order is defined by conscious determination. Conscious determination is an argument for something being correct.
Our very existence, spewing from the quantum foam, is the result of us having a conscious and argumentative determination that we exist. Cease to argue, and you may merely dissipate into individual atoms!
To exist? Is to argue.