terminology thread: conciseness vs concision

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is there a modern philosophy (or maybe even formal logic?) term to explain the wrongness of the first one?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

neither one of 'em holds a candle to concisity

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

same number of letter, more syllables? i don't see it horace

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

unless that's a fresno punk band of some sort

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

it's those last few clipped syllables, it's Don King Potential Quotient

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

concisiosity

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah, when in doubt, add an O

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

is Concisiosity was a band they would be prog-punk

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

the first example that comes to mind is Ally's wet-t-shirt carwash to benefit breast cancer research (sorry, Ally) i.e. when the formal properties of a concept or word or action either contradict or undermine the thrust of the argument it's supposed to be making

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

thirteen years pass...

The good old days

― ELECTION (no comey I) (El Tomboto), Monday, 31 October 2016 21:24 (eight years ago)

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