Equivocation in a sentence as a noun

This is a weird bit of equivocation, and it's kind of clever and fun to think about.

This comparison to steam is a bit of a false equivocation.

>It shouldn't be "they **** us and dance in their streets, we **** them and dance in ours".This is an invalid equivocation.

His use of "mistakes" is a verbal fallacy called equivocation.

" It is the "paradise" of deuces wild for the mathematicians and it rests on an equivocation of the meaning of "infinity".

I've always thought "anti-gay marriage = anti-gay" as being a false equivocation.

You're arguing by insinuation and equivocation, and present nothing relevant to this event.

This kind of false equivocation is dishonest and intellectually lazy.

I cant stand libertarian equivocation on the meaning of 'selfishness'.

But your equivocation between silencing other viewpoints and eliminating unhealthy voices is not useful.

"But your equivocation between silencing other viewpoints and eliminating unhealthy voices is not useful.

"All a currency really needs to be valuable are two people who have faith in it"Which is an equivocation game, in that "have faith in it" must itself be motivated by something at least locally rational or it won't work.

Equivocation definitions

noun

a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

See also: evasion

noun

intentionally vague or ambiguous

See also: prevarication evasiveness

noun

falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language

See also: tergiversation