equivocation
模稜兩可的話,含糊話
equivocation
條件訊息量總平均值
E·quiv·o·ca·tion n. The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead.
There being no room for equivocations, there is no need of distinctions. --Locke.
Syn: -- Prevarication; ambiguity; shuffling; evasion; guibbling. See Equivocal, a., and Prevaricate, v. i.
◄ ►
equivocation
n 1: a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly
avoids an unpleasant truth [syn: evasion]
2: intentionally vague or ambiguous [syn: prevarication, evasiveness]
3: falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language [syn:
tergiversation]