Re:Hillbillies Need No Elegy
by thfuran on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @09:00AM
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>has an extremely long history.
That's really not a meaningful argument as to its merit. In fact, it's so famously not a meaningful argument that it has its own fancy name: argumentum ad antiquitatem.
Re:Hillbillies Need No Elegy
by Frondo on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @09:46AM
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I don't believe they were making a case that it has merit, only that it a long history and is a specific writing conceit for its audience...which I suppose gives it merit as being appropriate for its audience.
That's really not a meaningful argument as to its merit. In fact, it's so famously not a meaningful argument that it has its own fancy name: argumentum ad antiquitatem.