As to the other replies, you have to understand that we regularly hear words like «faith» and «religion» used to describe atheists as closet religioous people, but the reality is that the Fallacy Of
Equivocation only makes it seem they are the same thing.
Not exact matches
The president said many times, «if you like your health plan, you can keep it, period» — and «period» can
only mean «with no
equivocations, conditions, or qualifications.»
According to logician Trudy Govier, «The fallacy of
equivocation is committed when a key word in an argument is used in two or more senses and the premises of the argument appear to support its conclusion
only because these senses are not distinguished from each other.»
Only thus can we avoid fallacies of
equivocation.
Without
equivocation, the Court of Appeal held that where there is nullification of a general election and a re-run election is ordered,
only candidates who were nominated to contest in the nullified election can contest in the re-run election.
To her credit, Pilon does not iterate these canards but argues
only that the concept is «susceptible to
equivocation and manipulation.»
In the essays that he published over more than three decades, he turned even his
equivocations into dictums as he explored subjects that included not
only art, architecture, and the art world, but also urban development and national affairs.