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Why waste time say lot word when few do trick?

For anyone with even a passing knowledge of symbolic logic, what you provided is clear. But the explanation wouldn't be required for those people who are going to be familiar with that Fallacy anyway. It's for those who aren't aware of it. In that case, the symbolic version is of no help and the longer verbal explanation is important.

What about starting with a TL;DR for those who know symbols, then the detailed explanation?

But oh no, I think the edit window has closed for @ARandomerDude

There's no reason to use symbolic logic on a mixed-audience webboard, it's just a flex.

Look at how many words you've already used, that's more than the original. So much for terseness.

One nit generates another; on and on it goes. I wasn't even further explaining the concept, just explaining why.

Pure solipsism.