style and substance

It was rather a point about style—that some styles of thought and writing in philosophy, more than others, are able to convey that mysterious thing, depth. - Add Your Own Egg

я не позитивист ни с какой стороны, даже если бы я понимал что это такое, но парень насчет стиля верный закон накнокал.

style - depth - substance

курсив - его. я вообще это нехорошее слово depth не употребляю.

“Ordinary language philosophy” was the flavor of the decade: plain truths plainly spoken, in English.

угадайте, какое тут слово лишнее.

They goad you to distinguish what you actually think from what you think that you think...

hmm...

see also Style over substance as logical fallacy [If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
—W.C. Fields]

see also Morality, Mortality and other books by F. M. Kamm

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Levin continues that the Talmud and later rabbinical commentaries presented Esau and Western civilization as sharing negative characteristics such as hypocrisy (Shocher Tov 14,3), individualism, and placing an emphasis on style over substance.

- Reply to Jordan Peterson on the Jewish Question — From His Heroes Part One: Solzhenitsyn [TOO]

and Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. - Edmund Burke