The tactic in question consists of finding some nitpicky objection to something your opponent said, something not directly relevant to the issue at hand, and something which isn’t even wrong, just insufficiently precise, and discounting the substance of their argument on that basis.
Hrrm? Imprecision if anything occurred on Vlad’s part, not Jacob’s. Again, see issue of illusion of transparency matter. See also Vlad’s remark below.
Hrrm? Imprecision if anything occurred on Vlad’s part, not Jacob’s. Again, see issue of illusion of transparency matter. See also Vlad’s remark below.