And thus this double character of Apollo, by virtue of which he was equally formidable as a foe, and welcome as an ally,(1259) was authorized by the ambiguity of his name.
Upon the ambiguity of a word, the systematic indictment of intellectualism becomes the cornerstone of a systematically intellectualistic method of conceiving reality!
There really seems to be ground for supposing that the whole argument turns on an ambiguity in the use of the word “absolute.
And here he enters upon a series of confusions arising from theambiguity with which he invests the term notion.
It is important to notice this ambiguity in the Report of 1834, because it explains a similar ambiguity in the subsequent policy of Parliament and the Central Authority.
Against theambiguity of the oracles, it is echoed back as clearness, straightforwardness, good faith (ver.
This ambiguity is most conspicuous, perhaps, in the most absorbing of the personages which a man constructs in this imaginative fashion--his idea of himself.
The ambiguity in Kant's doctrine makes him a confusing representative of that criticism of perception which malicious psychology has to offer.
Such an idolatry would indeed be impossible if it were not partial and veiled, arrived at in following out some human interest and clung to by force of moral inertia and the ambiguity of words.
Manasseh ben Israel had the courage to express without ambiguity Jewish expectations in opposition to the opinions held by Christian enthusiasts.
He was truly an artist in the Hebrew tongue, and without elaboration or ambiguity he applied biblical phraseology to modern conditions and circumstances.
The fancied resemblances, I fear, arise sometimes merely from the ambiguity of words; there is supposed to be some relation between a SOFT line and SOFT couch, or between HEARD syllables and HARD fortune.
The more ardent spirits of the Tory party strongly censured the ambiguity of this defence, and the Government were beaten by majorities of 56 and 60.
No one of them, however, is precluded from attempts to improve it in breadth and brevity and beauty; and all are invited to pick logical flaws in it, whether of ambiguity or superfluity or deficiency.
The same ambiguity of course inheres in the corresponding English word, Borrow.
He objects that the sense will vary with the nature of the connecting links we supply, and he ascribes the opposite interpretations of Crousaz and Warburton to the ambiguity which leaves readers the choice of "a loyal or treasonable meaning.
Wakefield says "there is an affectation and ambiguity in this account which he does not comprehend.
Enough of "ambiguity and affectation" remains, which would have been no mystery to Wakefield if he had been aware that Pope's object was to deceive.
The fancied resemblances, I fear, arise sometimes merely from the ambiguity of words; there is supposed to be some relation between a soft line and a soft couch, or between hard syllables and hard fortune.
This question was left in ambiguity till 1700, and every successive election gave rise to a petition and Parliamentary inquiry.
Again there was a contest in 1784, rendered, like the former struggles, doubtful because of the ambiguity in the right of voting, as already described.
The silence or ambiguity of the laws was supplied by the occasional edicts of those magistrates who were invested with the honors of the state.
Any one who appreciates the import of Grasset's ideas will readily understand his terminology; it is at the same time expedient that the possibility of ambiguity in the use of words etymologically synonymous should be avoided.
The present introductory sketch is intended merely to demonstrate the ease with which ambiguity arises, and the desirability of its removal.
Jouffroy has told us how dogmas become extinct; recently one of his successors at the Sorbonne endeavoured to show “how dogmas come into being again,” and he took his stand with Spencer on an ambiguity in terms.
Sometimes the marks of both designer and engraver are found on prints, and in these cases the ambiguity is consequently removed.
The safest measure seemed to consist in previously engaging him so far, that he could not afterwards recede, and in making use of his present ambiguity and uncertainty, to extort the most important concessions from him.
It is no easy matter, from the ambiguityof the word, to decide the question.
An objection of some weight may however be made to this change; which is, that in recitation some ambiguity might arise, or at least the force of it would not be perceived; whereas the other reading could not be mistaken.
The complicated ambiguity of the word fica must be likewise attended to; and whoever is at a loss on this occasion may consult the early Italian dictionaries.
Afterwards indeed, Shakspeare, in his usual manner, recollecting the ambiguity of the term, takes up another simile, and makes Hamlet call his uncle a king of shreds and patches.
Another letter of 1514 will serve to bring out the ambiguity of the names given to diseases at the time.
We may admit, then, that there was some ambiguity in the naming and classifying of pestilential cases in the early months of 1665.
What applies in that respect to one soil-poison applies to another; and it will be shown in the proper place to apply with least ambiguity of all to Asiatic cholera, as well as to typhoid fever.
When, as in mathematics, important consequences seem to follow from them, such really follow from the tacit assumption, through the ambiguity of the copula, of the real existence of the object named.
The ambiguity of the word motive has also caused confusion.
The ambiguity arises very often from assuming that a word corresponds precisely in meaning with the root itself (e.
The feelings of the lady turned my attention, and prevented me from noticing the ambiguity of the reply.
