# Rationality and immigration

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-05-23-rationality-and-immigration

The piece identifies an appeal to logic in the US language debate as a rhetorical syllogism that equates linguistic uniformity with national unity.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 May 2006

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 23 May 2006
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: immigration, linguistic-nationalism, logic, public-discourse.

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