The suggestion that, post-general election, an overhaul of the act is desirable defies logic, and the idea that we should throw in a vague and ill-defined discourse on responsibilities for good measure is puzzling.
Burke, after all, was suspicious of poor ideas: he concluded that 'one of the main causes of our present troubles' was 'general discourses, and vague sentiments', and urged instead study of 'an exact detail of particulars' (SSC, W & S 1981-, 1981-,85).
As the term PM is already established in public discourse, however vaguely defined, the goal of this paper can only be to derive a precising definition.
While much of our public discourse has the vague, improvisational content of bullshit, bullshit's habitat of ephemeral, fleeting, off-the-record space is shrinking.
Indeed, Egyptians long for a president who would be clear in his positions and specific in his discourse; one who avoids vague expressions and empty slogans in his discourse.
Indeed, it may be the vague, equivocal, quasi-mystical, and/or ineliminably metaphorical imponderabilia of moral discourse that so troubles the error theorist.
In European political discourse, not only is anti-Zionism quite acceptable, but so are vague allegations of too much Jewish influence in public life, especially across the Atlantic.
Although anti-communism is a vague ideology for the mass, it still exerts profound impact on political discourses with regard to welfare and the market in the post Cold War period, revealing a significant transformation of the nature of anti-communism.
He writes: "Is not the 'vagueness' of populist discourses the consequence of social reality itself being, in some situations, vague and undetermined?" It is important, Laclau goes on, to "explore the performative dimensions" of populism.
In recent years, with the proliferation of cellphone videos and YouTube, the idea that there is vague cooperation between the police and violent demonstrators has grown beyond conspiracy theory and entered more mainstream discourse.
