Sentence examples for type of equivocation from inspiring English sources

Boethius's second type of equivocation is 'analogia' in the Greek sense, and the standard example was the word 'principium' (principle or origin), which was said to apply to unity with respect to number and to point with respect to a line, or to both the source of a river and the heart of an animal.

It's the type of equivocation that Democrats are looking to expose.

By the mid-twelfth century the rest of Aristotle's logic had been recovered, including the Sophistical Refutations in which Aristotle discusses three types of equivocation and how these contribute to fallacies in logic.

In effect, this analysis treats Skolem's paradox as a straightforward case of equivocation.

Later logicians supported this link between equivocation and metaphor by an appeal to Aristotle's divisions of equivocation in his Sophistical Refutations, where he remarked that the second type was based on common usage.

"There is no question of equivocation.

The novel's title has overtones of equivocation, too.

At last here is a scintilla of equivocation.

But it's no cure-all, despite the lack of equivocation from some news media cheerleaders.

The letter is a masterpiece of equivocation and prevarication, leaving a false impression without telling an outright lie.

Kirstein may be excused for resorting to a language of equivocation and innuendo in public.