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abstract noun |
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The War on Terror is a war against an abstract noun, as
unwinnable as the wars on hunger, drugs, crime and human nature
. This is a source of
error for many" and "such a production of abstract nouns from
adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, verbs, and syncategorematic terms
creates many difficulties and leads many into errors. A more ruthless and time-compressed use of force, within a
tightly circumscribed target set, would have served better over the past
year than the so far inconclusive approach to a wide but ill-defined
"enemy"--an abstract noun, no less--that we have followed
instead. |
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