Abstract

HIGGINS, John. Evasive tactics. S. Afr. j. sci. [online]. 2025, vol.121, n.3-4, pp.1-3. ISSN 1996-7489.  https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2025/21179.

SIGNIFICANCE: This response to the Commentary entitled 'Should our universities respond to geopolitical conflicts around the world?' analyses some of the evasive tactics adopted by Chetty. It demonstrates how these tactics weave an associative web that inhibits the reader from the work of deliberation necessary to forming an opinion. It further argues that (in terms of philosophical grammar) proper deliberation is a necessarily prior step to the holding or maintaining of something as a principle (including, as here, the neutrality principle).

Keywords : Gaza; neutrality principle; associative web; deliberation; rhetoric.

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