Associations to the word «Equivocation»
Noun
- Fallacy
- Evasion
- Falsehood
- Ambiguity
- Entropy
- Treatise
- Concealment
- Allusion
- Fiend
- Reservation
- Analogy
- Jesuit
- Myth
- Treason
- Denial
- Doctrine
- Lying
- Porter
- Phrase
- Logic
- Truth
- Shakespeare
- Lie
- Conviction
- Notion
- Perhaps
- Meaning
- Absence
- Word
- Sense
- Judgment
- Statement
- Representation
- Subject
- Doubt
- Answer
- Substance
- Term
- Constitution
- Language
- Plot
- Category
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Wiktionary
EQUIVOCATION, noun. (logic) A logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression.
EQUIVOCATION, noun. The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading.
Dictionary definition
EQUIVOCATION, noun. A statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth.
EQUIVOCATION, noun. Intentionally vague or ambiguous.
EQUIVOCATION, noun. Falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.