Choose an artist with substance over style, Blog entry 11/5/13

The style over substance fallacy is a rhetorical technique, whereby the author embellishes their argument with compelling language and various terms of art, in order to silence dissent. Neither of these — poetry or obfuscation, are legitimate logical analyses.
The fallacy works in two ways. It can propose an idea using style rather than substance, or they can reject an idea by attacking its style and presentation rather than its information content. The writing might be wonderful, and the references seemingly deep, but what matters is the content of the argument — the substance. If the argument is good, others will make it pretty. If all that is good is the "style", please, write novels instead. art abstract paintings modern