Translation for 'equivocation' from English to French

equivocation

ambiguïté {f}

équivoque {f} [faux-fuyant]

• After a day of equivocation following the debate, Senator Hillary Clinton issued a prepared statement that endorsed the plan.
• Intentional deception requires greater cognitive exertion than truthful communication, regardless of whether the sender attempts falsification (lying), (omitting material facts) or equivocation (skirting issues by changing the subject or responding indirectly).
• "Noticias Gráficas" opined: "An argument that rests on equivocation, but without adding any detail that differentiates it from the innumerable number of plays that frivolous theater counts in its copious credit."
• When there was good reason for using equivocation, its lawfulness was admitted by all moral theologians.
• In the context of political discourse, evasion is a technique of equivocation that is important for face management.

• The point must be made clearly and without equivocation that the earliest Particular Baptists, as well as General Baptists, established their churches by agreement to a confession of faith.
• Later, based on intuition, Cherette challenged her mother directly about her father and sensed equivocation.
• In April 2017, the government of Jamaica issued a formal apology for the incident, taking responsibility "without equivocation" and stating that the incident "should never have happened".
• When a stipulative definition is confused with a lexical definition within an argument there is a risk of equivocation.
• Although transgenderism is said to be the modern equivalent and expansion on Ellis’ eonism, exact equivocation may not be possible.

• His defence of the practice of equivocation was published in "A Treatise against lying and fraudulent dissimulation" (c. ...
• The fallacy has been described as an instance of equivocation, more specifically concept-swapping, which is the substitution of one concept for another without the audience realizing.
• It is a fallacy of equivocation between the operations OR and XOR.
• The student's resolution stated: "We protest the racial discrimination against one of our fellow students and declare without equivocation our firm resolve that all Americans have equal rights under the law."
• The effectiveness of equivocation involves the "information gap" between what the spectator knows and what the spectator thinks he knows.

• Included in the Church teachings of this commandment is the requirement for Christians to bear witness to their faith "without equivocation" in situations that require it.
• Here, the equivocation is the metaphorical use of "jackass" to imply a simple-minded or obnoxious person instead of a male donkey.