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While we may attempt to "easily" define kairos by relegating it to simple
"situational context" status, or dismiss it as a way to "seize the audience,"
to do so would be both untrue to the historicity
of the concept and unfair to anyone attempting to utilize the term in relation
to modern rhetorical theory. However, it may well
be that there is no single definition upon which we can settle; after all,
since (as we shall see) kairos stands upon a principle of spontaneity,
responsiveness and interpretation, to codify a view on kairos would,
ironically, deny kairos itself by "incoherently promising foreknowledge of
chance." (White 20) The best kairos can provide,
then is "an avowal of its own inconclusiveness."
(42)
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