Eugine_Nier comments on Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Argument - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 24 February 2013 09:36:51PM 0 points [-]

His arguments have a logical structure which is imitable but they are embedded in a rhetorical structure that I would find very hard to imitate convincingly due to lack of practice.

I'm not sure where you're drawing the line between logical and rhetorical structure. The most obvious rhetorical structure is that he acts like he alieves his position in addition to believing it.