Definitionn. a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
Last update: September 16, 2015
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Yes, rejoins Lange, but Kant has proved that material are merely mental phenomena; so that the more the materialist proves his case the more surely he is playing into the hands of the idealist - an answer which would be complete if it did not turn on the equivocation of the word " phenomenon," which in science means any positive fact, and not a mere appearance, much less a mental appearance, to sense and sensory experience. [Please select]
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Shameful equivocation, not justified by the necessity for generalization. [Please select]
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"From equivocation to equivocation," says M. [Please select]
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"That is but an equivocation--a poor equivocation." [Please select]
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The defendant--General Jackson--resorted to a strange equivocation to extricate himself. [Please select]
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This equivocation necessitated the most cautious rearrangement of plans on the part of the Baron. [Please select]
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That name, as he observes, lends itself to an equivocation. [Please select]
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