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by rnk 1459 days ago
No they don't. This is just pointless sophistry. It does not explain the idea. It's writing that looks like the point is to show the writer's erudition, not explain the idea.
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If you try to express a complex idea directly, in practice, your audience often misses the point or misunderstands it. The complex delivery has in it redundancy. It approaches the idea from different angles. It connects the idea to other ideas.

(That's also a misuse of the word "sophistry", by the way.)

Aha! You are one of them ;-) And I'm apparently not.