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That'd be a "style-over-substance" fallacious argument. Or one could be hoping for a halo-effect to cloud the reader's opinion of their comment because some pie
by tylerritchie 7mo ago
That'd be a "style-over-substance" fallacious argument. Or one could be hoping for a halo-effect to cloud the reader's opinion of their comment because some piece of software made it read like Enron-marketing-hogwash-speak.
- dbacar 7mo agoSometimes the style is the substance. There is a reason people study rhetoric.
- AnimalMuppet 7mo agoThat's not substance. That's style being all there is, trying desperately to cover up the lack of substance. Rhetoric works best when it gives wings to strong ideas, not when it tries to fly by itself.
- tadfisher 7mo agoAnd that should be anathema to discussions rooted in reason.