Abstract
Much of what is said in political oratory is little more than vacuous appeals to high-minded moral pretense and patriotic fervor. Such appeals to country, democracy, liberty, and God have little cognitive substance or practical application when such terms are applied to everyday living.
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© 2007 George E. Yoos
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Yoos, G.E. (2007). Reification and Empty Abstraction. In: Reframing Rhetoric. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230607514_1
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