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Hand-waving (with various spellings) is a pejorative label for attempting to be seen as effective – in word, reasoning, or deed – while actually doing nothing effective or substantial. It is often applied to debating techniques that involve fallacies, misdirection and the glossing over of details. It is also used academically to indicate unproven claims and skipped steps in proofs (sometimes intentionally, as in lectures and instructional materials), with some specific meanings in particular fields, including literary criticism, speculative fiction, mathematics, logic, science and engineering.

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  • Argument qualitatif (fr)
  • Hand-waving (en)
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  • En sciences, un argument qualitatif se distingue d'un argument quantitatif par le fait qu'il ne s'appuie pas sur des données numériques. Cette distinction ne porte pas sur la rigueur de l'argument, même si la prédominance des valeurs chiffrées peut parfois induire une connotation négative pour l'argument qualitatif, qui devient alors synonyme de « avec les mains » (en anglais : (en) hand-waving). (fr)
  • Hand-waving (with various spellings) is a pejorative label for attempting to be seen as effective – in word, reasoning, or deed – while actually doing nothing effective or substantial. It is often applied to debating techniques that involve fallacies, misdirection and the glossing over of details. It is also used academically to indicate unproven claims and skipped steps in proofs (sometimes intentionally, as in lectures and instructional materials), with some specific meanings in particular fields, including literary criticism, speculative fiction, mathematics, logic, science and engineering. (en)
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