cogency

But noise probably works better than cogency in this regard.

But it is an imperative whose cogency I refuse to admit.

Sorry, but I'm having trouble finding the cogency in this comment.

Because nothing adds to the cogency of one's argument like cartoon animals...

I appreciate the cogency of your broader point, but please reconsider using the terminology "virtue signaling.

If I hear one more person throw out No True Scotsman...On a more constructive note, it seems to me that discussions of fallacies are nearly useless without first talking about deductive/inductive logic, validity & soundness, strong/weak and cogency.

I agree that the sheer volume of not completely airtight reasons detracted from its cogency and echoes the style of "conspiracy theories".But for me there was a very solid point that seals the deal: zooming in on the high-resolution source, there were no visible sign of wounds.

And we have had to live the future scenario of which Stengers and Gille warned us in 1985; absolutely nothing has happened to deprive their question and their warning of their cogency, for we have seen technical advice pertinent to our pleasures pressed into the service of a thoroughly authoritarian, albeit thoroughly stupid, moralism.

It is a great fault of symbolic pseudo-mathematical methods of formalising a system of economic analysis, such as we shall set down in section vi of this chapter, that they expressly assume strict independence between the factors involved and lose all their cogency and authority if this hypothesis is disallowed; whereas, in ordinary discourse, where we are not blindly manipulating but know all the time what we are doing and what the words mean, we can keep 'at the back of our heads' the necessary reserves and qualifications and the adjustments which we shall have to make later on, in a way in which we cannot keep complicated partial differentials 'at the back' of several pages of algebra which assume that they all vanish.