trichotomy

Example Sentences

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As agonizing as this emergency decision would be, the setup plays like a false trichotomy, compounded by ancillary ironies contrived for dramatic purposes.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2021

Typical Connectives but, while, however, nonetheless, yet despite, even though One other major coherence relation doesn’t easily fit into Hume’s trichotomy, attribution: so-and-so believes such-and-such.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Valentinus avails himself of the notion of the trichotomy of human nature, and gives a place for the bulk of Christians, those who did not embrace Gnosticism; cf.

From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen

"Power, Wisdom, and Will" surely cannot be a sound trichotomy as applied either to human nature or Divine.

From Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge by Rashdall, Hastings

Trisection -- N. trisection, tripartition†, trichotomy; third, third part.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark