Episode #006, 13.11.2011: equivocation

equivocate, intransitive verb. Use ambiguous words to conceal the truth, prevaricate. Hence equivocation.

In a sentence: “In his book, Kant uses a lot of equivocations.”

This word originated in the 15^th century and comes from the Latin word equivocare, which means to call by the same name.

 An example of equivocation is:

A feather is light.

What is light cannot be dark.

Therefore, a feather cannot be dark.

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