Sentence examples similar to equivocal contexts from inspiring English sources

Consequently, the answer to the question of whether hatchery supplementation using native broodstock can provide benefits to wild steelhead trout production remains equivocal and context specific.

It is neither univocal (used with the same meaning as in ordinary contexts) nor equivocal (used with an unrelated meaning).

The most interesting issues arise in the context of equivocal terms.

Although elevation of this sphingolipid is associated with the cytotoxic action of 4-HPR, a major mediatory role for ceramide in this context remains equivocal.

The functional role of Sirt1 in cancer is equivocal and suggested to be context dependent [ 24].

Given the variation of facts over time then (as opposed to contextualism's variation in the context of use) the extension of the univocal property expressed by the vague predicate will vary since what is or is not significant for an individual varies over time (as opposed to the variation appealed to by contextualists due to equivocal properties being expressed in varied contexts).

This topic is of great relevance in the context of clarifying the equivocal role of FOXP3 and its partners for explanation of regulatory T cell circuits.

A recent test of this hypothesis led to equivocal results, but added another parameter varying with context: an increased frequency of the twitter part associated with an agitated response (Ripmeester et al. 2007).

Analysis of platelet function in the context of infection and sepsis has yielded equivocal data depending on the experimental paradigm.

However, evidence of the effectiveness of supplementary prenatal support from nurses and home visitors within the context of low risk community based prenatal care was equivocal, and there was uncertainty about the generalizability of findings from high risk populations [ 19- 25].

As Elizabeth Anscombe wrote in a similar context, 'it is implausible to say that the word is equivocal as it occurs in these different cases' and from the fact that 'we are tempted to speak of "different senses" of a word which is clearly not equivocal, we may infer that we are pretty much in the dark about the character of the concept which it represents' (Anscombe 1963, p. 1).