How To Use Equivocation In A Sentence
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The fallacies noted throughout are the standard ones discussed in Aristotle's De Sophisticis Elenchis: the fallacy of equivocation; the fallacy of accident; the fallacy of the composite and divided senses; the fallacy of the consequent; the fallacy of absolute and qualified senses; the fallacy of many causes of truth; amphiboly; improper supposition.
Richard the Sophister
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Other common strategies used to save face for others include the use of circumlocution and equivocation when criticism of another's performance is unavoidable.
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This artifice is called equivocation or amphibology; it consists in the use of words that have a natural double meaning; it supposes in him who resorts to it the right to conceal the truth, a right superior to that of the tormentor who questions him.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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The 'story', if it can be called that, opens in mystery and proceeds through ambiguity, equivocation, and vagueness.
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While compassion makes us feel the richer for our magnanimity, justice stirs up far more complex emotions of self-justification and equivocation.
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So much so, that there will be no equivocations or amphibolies, and everything which will be said intelligibly in that language will be said with propriety.
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While everyone was scurrying around trying to figure out how to embrace Matt Dillon's overlong, otherwise decent directing debut, there was no need for equivocation about Washington's work.
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As someone who's been struggling with NOT getting things done for over forty years, I can say without equivocation that Allen's methods really do work.
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This arrangement provides an account of synonymy (both interlinguistic and intralinguistic) and equivocation in spoken and written language.
William of Ockham
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However, I can tell you without equivocation that my favorite sidearm is a Kimber Custom II. 45ACP.
Favorite gun
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In other words, to show that this contradiction is really a contradiction, you have to show that it is impossible for anything to be both God and man, because otherwise the reduplicative propositions 'God as God is immortal' and 'God as man is mortal' are not contradictory the reduplicative phrase modifies the predicate and prevents them from being univocal; if so, the alleged contradiction is a case of the fallacy of equivocation.
Archive 2005-01-01
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So the knowledge argument is invalid because it involves a fallacy of equivocation: ‘know’ means something different in the two premises.
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Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
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Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
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With Shelley's drawing in English on those interchangeable speech sounds "O" and "Oh," his ode momentarily arrests that move into literalization, into discourse, or pretends to, in a cross-lexical alphabetic suspension — even in the very fashioning of its first signifying transit; and even in the equivocation of its monosyllabic letter sounds.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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He answered openly and honestly without hesitation or equivocation.
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The excuses, explanations and equivocations are strictly for public consumption.
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So the universal science of being qua being appears to founder on an equivocation: how can there be a single science of being when the very term ˜being™ is ambiguous?
Aristotle's Metaphysics
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Despite the nobility of its conception, this odyssey will end in irresolution and equivocation - as indeed it must.
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McCain isn't and never was George W. Bush, and Obama with all his equivocation and evasiveness is no John McCain.
McCain admits mistake in using Petraeus picture for fundraising
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No question has been raised as to any equivocation, ambiguity or uncertainty in the interpretation of that will.
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But the implication that Europeans were indifferent to the colour of their slaves rests on an equivocation between unfree labour and slave labour.
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Linguistically, an amphiboly is an ambiguity which results from ambiguous grammar, as opposed to one that results from the ambiguity of words or phrases - that is, Equivocation.
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Hence equivocations and amphibologies came to be called mental restrictions or reservations.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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Such expressions as "He is not at home" were called equivocations, or amphibologies, and when there was good reason for using them their lawfulness was admitted by all.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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In causerie we are slipshod with our terminology; in fact, variations in terms and equivocations often lend considerable charm to the conversation.
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So I can say that without any equivocation whatsoever.
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All of his examples, however, turn in this way on the junctural equivocation of two (or three) abutting words, so that such phrasal alternatives (rather than full-sentence variants) are predominantly dependent on what
Notes on 'Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian'
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In the Porter's scene in Act II of "Macbeth," equivocation comes in for a serious rhetorical battering: "Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales and against either scale; who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven.
A Blessing—Not a Curse
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There is no equivocation on the question of historicity there.
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He answered openly and honestly without hesitation or equivocation.
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First of all, he's a master of doubleness--or as comedy theorists call it, verbal equivocation.
Aaron Belz: Literary Twitter: @thesulk
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It is a huge story, full of facts, and Fraser spurns equivocation and doubt as she explains why Alfred was great and Ethelred was unready, why King John was not a good man and Nelson and Wellington were brilliant.
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There was no equivocation in his stare; no attempt to pretend he was looking elsewhere.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
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But Sutcliffe had noted the shadow of equivocation cross his eyes.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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But Congressional equivocation also reflects Congressional ambivalence.
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While compassion makes us feel the richer for our magnanimity, justice stirs up far more complex emotions of self-justification and equivocation.
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We'll publish pictures no one will publish, we'll show video no one will show, and we'll stay on it 24/7 until the truth penetrates through the lies and equivocations.
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Their equivocations seem to have taken our mandarins by surprise.
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But in the meantime, I back the president's decision without any equivocation.
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He seemed to read her equivocation, and suggested that she stay.
COLDHEART CANYON
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I know there's been a lot of equivocation in this post.
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Equivocation is Number 1 cousin to a lie.
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humoring" Phoebe's madness, with its implied subterfuges and equivocations.
The Panchronicon
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So the knowledge argument is invalid because it involves a fallacy of equivocation: ‘know’ means something different in the two premises.
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Look, in my view it's due to, if you like, a bit of equivocation about earnings growth for the course of the next 12 months.
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Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
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With official equivocation over animal experiments, it isn't surprising that plans for a world-class primate research lab at Cambridge have been axed.
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It is at any rate more candid than the notoriously slimy postwar equivocations of Albert Speer.
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His reactions are relevant only because they seem to fit his career-long pattern of equivocation and calculation trying whenever possible to have it both ways.
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You read them and you see a man so cautiously calculating not to put a foot wrong that he envelops himself in a fog of caveats and equivocations.
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Now, of these four modes of misleading others by the tongue, when there is a _justa causa_ (supposing there can be such) -- a material lie, that is an untruth which is not a lie, an equivocation, an evasion, and silence, -- First, I have no difficulty whatever in recognizing as allowable the method of _silence_.
Apologia pro Vita Sua
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The equivocation of its affirmation - if affirmation it be - is first among the defects that ought to disqualify this proposal.
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Garnet was accused of knowing about the plot beforehand and not reporting it to the authorities. he was accused of Jesuitical equivocation.
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I'm over-reacting, of course, but it seems that such reportage has more to do with equivocation than articulation.
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Apparently, they didn't realize that the people who felt this way were looking for leadership on the issue not equivocation.
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Inevitably the postelection media were full of tactful equivocations, brave faces and the search for silver linings.
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He is practicing the ancient craft of equivocation, a trade plied by oracles thousands of years ago.
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Twenty pages on Bishop Myriel -- that rather piebald angel who makes the way impossible for any successor by his fantastic and indecent "apostolicism" in living; who tells, _not_ like St. Athanasius, an allowable equivocation to save his valuable self, but a downright lie to save a worthless rascal; and who admits defeat in argument by the stale sophisms of a moribund _conventionnel_ -- might have been tolerable.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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I say without equivocation to the House that the assets test is a logical and necessary expression of any genuine commitment to the pursuit of a needs based welfare system.
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Despite the nobility of its conception, this odyssey will end in irresolution and equivocation - as indeed it must.
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There is no mendacity, equivocation or perversion of truth.
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The term implies something less than the ideal outcome of a war: reservation, equivocation, ambiguity, limitation—substitutes for victory.
Between War and Peace
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This is always an issue for the scrupulous scholar - what to enlarge upon, what to jettison - but this is the only equivocation about this impressive book, written with both passion and clarity.
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Forgive the drive-by (I was following a breadcrumb from j_bluestocking's journal) -- but there may still be a script for Equivocation available through the Tudor Guild, released by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in conjunction with last year's production.
The Duchess of Malfi
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Valved horns were permitted, in the light of Wagner's own equivocation about them, joining those valved horn hybrids known as Wagner tubas.
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There are six linguistic fallacies: equivocation, amphiboly or amphibology, accent, composition, division, and figure of speech or parallel-word construction.
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As seems to be the case in Malaysian, there is some equivocation about whether the borrowings are pronouns or just nouns.
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In order to have a meaningful ID theory, IDers need to drop the equivocations, the pretense that folk psychology is adequate to their needs, and put a stake in the ground for dualistic interactionism – or whatever they really are talking about when the use this damnably undefined term of theirs.
Bunny and a Book
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Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.