RichardKennaway comments on Open thread, October 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 06 September 2014 07:04:45PM 0 points [-]

It's fairly similar to "it's in latin, therefore it must be profound"

Or to sound more profound, quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur. With that in mind, the fallacy of dressing up in mathematical clothing might be dubbed the Quidquid Mathematice fallacy, or Quidquid Per Numeros ("whatever (is said) with numbers").