Handwaving

//ˈhandweɪvɪŋ//

Synonyms for "handwaving" (1 found)

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Arabic

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  • تَلْوِيح بِالْيَد adj (waving the hands)

Finnish

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  • käsiään heiluttava adj (waving the hands)

Norwegian

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  • gestikulerende adj (waving the hands)

Polish

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  • machanie rękoma adj (waving the hands)

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McClatchy goes on to try and level a damning critique, which amounts to a lot of handwaving about things we already know.

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If one looks today at the logical literature, one finds that there is a great deal of handwaving going on of the same kind as that used by Gödel in his paper. That is, informal arguments are given to show that a formalization of a certain statement is formally provable in a certain theory.

Source: wiktionary

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