Sentence example with the word 'equivocation'

equivocation

ambiguity, chicanery, duck, fallaciousness, hedging, mystification, pendulation, quibbling, sidestepping, subterfuge, zigzag

Definition n. a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

Last update: September 16, 2015


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Yes, rejoins Lange, but Kant has proved that material are merely mental phenomena; so that the more the materialist proves his case the more surely he is playing into the hands of the idealist - an answer which would be complete if it did not turn on the equivocation of the word " phenomenon," which in science means any positive fact, and not a mere appearance, much less a mental appearance, to sense and sensory experience.   [Please select]

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Shameful equivocation, not justified by the necessity for generalization.   [Please select]

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"From equivocation to equivocation," says M.   [Please select]

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"That is but an equivocation--a poor equivocation."   [Please select]

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The defendant--General Jackson--resorted to a strange equivocation to extricate himself.   [Please select]

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This equivocation necessitated the most cautious rearrangement of plans on the part of the Baron.   [Please select]

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That name, as he observes, lends itself to an equivocation.   [Please select]

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