1) Cavil 2) Doublespeak 3) Evasion 4) Evasiveness 5) Indirectness 6) Prevarication 7) Quibble 8) Quiddity 9) Tergiversation
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1) Deceit 2) Deception 3) Evasion 4) Hedging 5) Misrepresentation 6) Prevarication
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Equivocation (`to call by the same name`) is classified as an informal logical fallacy. It is the misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense (by glossing over which meaning is intended at a particular time). It generally occurs with polysemic words (words with multiple meanings). Albeit in common parlance it is used in a variet.....
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[magic] Equivocation is a verbal technique by which a magician appears to have a particular outcome, when in actuality the outcome is one of several alternatives. `In essence equivoque is the process of psychological forcing combined with double entendre.` ==Magician`s Choice== In a typical example of the Magician`s Choice, the magician wil...
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• (n.) The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead.
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(from the article `applied logic`) These fallacies, called fallacies of ambiguity, arise when the conclusion is achieved through an improper use of words. The principal instances are ...
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E·quiv`o·ca'tion noun The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead. « There being no room for
equivocations , there is no need of distinctions.»
Locke. Syn. -- Prevarication; ambiguity; shuffling; evasion; guibbling. See
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[n] - intentionally vague or ambiguous 2. [n] - falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
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equivocation 1. Falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language. 2. Intentionally vague or ambiguous. 3. A statement that is not literally false but which cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth. 4. In logic, a fallacy caused by the double meaning of a word.
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Commonly known as “doublespeak,” equivocation is the use of vague language to hide one’s meaning or to avoid committing to a point of view.
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tergiversation noun falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
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is any fallacy arising from ambiguity of a word, or of a phrase playing the role of a single word in the reasoning in question, the word or phrase being used at different places with different meanings and an inference drawn which is formally correct if the word or phrase is treated as being the same word or phrase throughout. -- A. C.
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A form of FALLACY where an ambiguity arises because a term or phrase has been used in two different senses within the one argument. E.g. The college has a special scholarship designed for poor students. My lecturer says that I
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the use of equivocal or ambiguous expressions, esp. in order to mislead or hedge; prevarication. · an equivocal, ambiguous expression; equivoque: The speech was marked by elaborate equivocations. · a fallacy caused by the double meaning of a word.
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intentional vagueness or ambiguity
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