{"id":5839,"date":"2021-10-27T11:38:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T09:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2025-05-06T22:44:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T20:44:30","slug":"verbiage-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/verbiage-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Verbiage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>VERBIAGE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Port-Royal <em>Logic<\/em> stigmatizes the technique of the <strong><em>inventio<\/em><\/strong> as stimulating the \u00ab\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">pernicious fertility of common thoughts<\/span>\u00a0\u00bb (Arnauld and Nicole [1662], p. 235). The same criticism applies to the techniques of <strong><em>elocutio<\/em><\/strong>, which stimulate and exalt <span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">the abundance of words<\/span> (<em>copia verborum<\/em>). and is the fundamental component of <strong>eloquence<\/strong>, producing a verbose and redundant discourse, see <a href=\"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/ornamental-fallacy-e\/\">ornament<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Among the causes which lead us into error, by a false luster, which prevents our recognizing it, we may justly reckon a certain grand and pompous eloquence. [\u2026] For it is wonderful how sweetly a false reasoning flows in at the close of a period which well fits the ear, or of a figure which surprises us by its novelty, and in the contemplation of which we are delighted. (<em>Id<\/em>., p. 279)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The condemnation of the techniques that stimulate the abundance of ideas as well as the abundance of words amounts to a general condemnation of rhetoric, as inherently fallacious. The rejection of eloquence, renamed <strong><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\"><em>verbiage <\/em><\/span><\/strong>to stigmatize its negative orientation, is a turning point in the relations between rhetoric and logic as a critique of discourse. This fallacy of verbiage is, as it were, the mother of all fallacies. According to Whately:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">a very long discussion is one of the most effective masks of the fallacies; <\/span>[&#8230;] a fallacy, which, asserted without a veil [&#8230;] would not deceive a child, can deceive half the world if it is diluted in a large quarto (<em>Elements of Logic<\/em> 1844) (quoted by Mackie, 1967, p. 179).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">See <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/fallacies-iv-a-moral-and-anthropological-perspective-e\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">fallacies 4: A Moral and Anthropological Perspective<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VERBIAGE The Port-Royal Logic stigmatizes the technique of the inventio as stimulating the \u00ab\u00a0pernicious fertility of common thoughts\u00a0\u00bb (Arnauld and Nicole [1662], p. 235). The same criticism applies to the techniques of elocutio, which stimulate and exalt the abundance of words (copia verborum). and is the fundamental component of eloquence, producing a verbose and redundant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5839"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14191,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions\/14191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}