Even so, having two separate Best Picture awards can't help but seem like equivocation.
The host began with the same sort of equivocations that are frequently offered by media types whose verbal diarrhea get the better of their good sense -- he tried to avoid being politically correct, the issues he discusses are sensitive, the show is unscripted and fast paced.
It may seem like an equivocation to insert the word "necessarily".
Two years later, Scorsese cast him again, as the lawyer in Cape Fear, and for this same quality of moral equivocation.
Vernam suggested a means of introducing equivocation at the same rate at which it was reduced by redundancy among symbols of the message, thereby safeguarding communications against cryptanalytic attack.
The Sun quoted him saying, "I have absolutely no recollection of it" – which looked, at first glance, like a non-denial denial: an "I do not recall" equivocation, which is not quite the same as saying "It's not true".
We should also note that in the same passage of his commentary on the Categories, Boethius linked deliberate equivocation with metaphor, in which the sense of one word with an established signification was extended to apply improperly to something else.
Not only has the country's most important environmental agency come down on the side of dredging, after 10 years of study and equivocation, but the administration of Gov. George Pataki of New York has endorsed the same strategy.
At the same time, talk of univocation was superseded by signification, by implication univocal signification unless equivocation was identified.[6] A major shift in focus occurred in the early fourteenth century, probably occasioned by Ockham — certainly, he was the leading figure.
Drummer Chad Channing and girlfriend Marander got their marching orders in the same week – not that either would have known much about it, such was the passive-aggressive equivocation.
