emendation

Example Sentences

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Harman’s emendation explains why the nomad does not have knowledge and accounts for the intuition that the man in Russell’s case does not actually know what time it is.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

“In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope.”

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2020

It’s a bit that invites a possible emendation to Wittgenstein’s familiar phrase: “If a dog could speak, we probably wouldn’t be able to hold down a conversation with it.”

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2017

Rather, there is rhetoric, history and mythology, which memorials attempt to fix in some kind of permanent form, beyond emendation or contradiction.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2016

I had once suggested a textual emendation in class, and he had given me a queer look.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok