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She is critiquing his reasoning by asserting he isn’t reasoning at all, but making rhetorical arguments; I completely agree with this! As another poster pointed out, he has been caught being candid about that behavior.

My critique, in turn, is that this behavior is self-evident to anyone who is willing to recognize it, a legitimate basis for decision making to rationalists, and irrelevant to folks who are only interested in agreeing with whatever conclusions they see in those murky essays.