What does hand waving mean?
Hand waving means (not comparable) Waving the hands..
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/ˈhandweɪvɪŋ/ · adjective
(not comparable) Waving the hands..
McClatchy goes on to try and level a damning critique, which amounts to a lot of handwaving about things we already know.
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.
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Hand waving means (not comparable) 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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