{"id":5137,"date":"2017-03-09T12:38:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T17:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2017-03-09T12:38:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T17:38:23","slug":"argumentum-ad-argumenti-longinquitatem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5137","title":{"rendered":"Argumentum ad argumenti longinquitatem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time is short, folks. We don&#8217;t have all day to sit around and listen to arguments and puzzle through scholastic distinctions. Perhaps for this reason, some genius has come up with a new form of refutation:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;your argument is too long; mine is better because it&#8217;s shorter&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a recent version:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sean Spicer Comparing ACA and AHCA 3\/7\/17\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1CxqncKtGZg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The length of such bills has been an argument against health care reform since 1993. We talked about this argument (in 2009) <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1597\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s obvious (is it not?) that the length of our arguings have no direct relation to their quality. It&#8217;s not even a pragmatic indicator. Perhaps it even goes the other way. The longer an argument, the more likely it&#8217;ll be better (or address your objections!).<\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo. What to call it? Sticking the with the Latinism popular among fallacy theorists: argumentum ad argumenti\u00c2\u00a0longinquitatem (argument against the length of an argument). Even the name of the fallacy is long. Get it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time is short, folks. We don&#8217;t have all day to sit around and listen to arguments and puzzle through scholastic distinctions. Perhaps for this reason, some genius has come up with a new form of refutation: &#8220;your argument is too long; mine is better because it&#8217;s shorter&#8221; Here&#8217;s a recent version: &nbsp; The length of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Argumentum ad argumenti longinquitatem<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2132,588,2097],"class_list":["post-5137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-argumentum-ad-argumenti-longinquitatem","tag-health-care-reform","tag-sean-spicer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5435,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions\/5435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}