Sentence examples for on equivocation from inspiring English sources
Representative Geoff Davis, Republican of Kentucky, said Dr. Berwick's answers bordered on equivocation.
Lehmann accused him of "aspen hesitation"; Day-Lewis knew his fragile identity as a poet depended on equivocation.
At least some of the disputes between proponents of monism and its rivals in the ontology of art have pivoted on equivocation regarding the kind of possibility envisaged in discussions of multiplicity and singularity.
After two years of equivocation on the subject of civil rights, Kennedy had finally sought to mobilize that vast body of Americans who had long considered segregation immoral, and who were certainly unprepared to countenance the most extreme forms of discrimination".
The majority view is that closure should be preserved (Mark Heller is the notable exception; see note #7, below), but also of course, given EC that it should be seen as holding only within a given context, on pain of equivocation.
Second, Adam Leite (2007) argues that the direct argument for contextualism from the knowledge account of assertion rests on an equivocation on the notion of 'warranted assertability'.
This argument is obviously invalid, because it relies on an equivocation on two senses of 'head', in (4) and (5) respectively.
Yet while the country was unquestionably late to the LNG game, it is now belatedly emerging as a major LNG exporter, its position in its traditional European markets is stronger than commonly appreciated, and its eastern strategy (with the Power of Siberia pipeline at its center) is now back on track after years of equivocation and delays on both sides.
Werhane's argument may depend on an equivocation between giving employees reasons and giving employees reasons on the merits.
Some argue that torture is justified if our survival is threatened, but even apart from the elasticity of this justification, it is flawed because it depends on an equivocation.
It depends on an equivocation in what is meant by "random".
