Sentence examples for to equivocation from inspiring English sources

Glick is not prone to equivocation.

Aristotle recognized six verbal fallacies: those due to equivocation, amphiboly, combination or division of words, accent, and form of expression.

Boudry et al. ([2010b]) have pointed to equivocation in the concept "information" in ID, with its scientific interpretation of "a measure of randomness" being replaced by its colloquial use of "meaningful message" thus making it more persuasive to refer to DNA sequences as "designed".

One of Macbeth's deepest insights is that in such a poisonous climate – medieval Scotland or Jacobean London – the good, and the evil, have to embrace "equivocation" to survive.

And if he asked what was wrong with her I wasn't going to equivocate because equivocation — any kind of uncertainty, a tremor in the voice, a tonal shift, playacting — is the surest lie detector.

Phenomenal arguments also need to avoid appeal to any equivocation on 'quality'quality

Moreover, the language used to speak of the elements of incidental change are extended to substantial change and altered in meaning so as to avoid equivocation.

He will listen to no equivocation about Berlin.

It also indicates some of the confusions to which equivocation among different senses of this concept has led.

Compression procedures work by reducing data redundancy, but redundancy is not always a bad thing, for it can help to counteract equivocation (data sent but never received) and noise (data received but unwanted).

One cannot help suspecting that the attraction of desire satisfaction views of pleasure owes something to unconscious equivocation between someone's feeling satisfied (as one might, but need not be, when one's desire is) and one's desire being satisfied (i.e., fulfilled) merely by its satisfaction conditions coming to pass, as it might be long after one is dead and gone.