Timeline for When and how to use "equivocate" properly
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 21, 2018 at 2:13 | comment | added | Nigel J | The legendary equivocation of Michael Howard when Jeremy Paxman attempted (on twelve separate occasions) to get a straight answer out of him. ---> youtube.com/… 'Did you threaten to overule him ?' | |
| Jan 21, 2018 at 0:35 | answer | added | Boondoggle | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 20, 2018 at 23:45 | comment | added | Jim | He’s treating equivocation as a style of question answering and is saying “by equivocating you’ll avoid telling me what I want to know.” | |
| Jan 20, 2018 at 22:49 | comment | added | Sebastian Nielsen | equivocate means "avoiding to answer a question", so why, in example 1, did he add "and avoid all of my questions" - that's what equivocate meant. | |
| Jan 20, 2018 at 22:46 | comment | added | Jim | I don’t see what’s counterintuitive. One way to avoid directly answering a question is to equivocate. | |
| Jan 20, 2018 at 22:39 | history | asked | Sebastian Nielsen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |