trichotomy

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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

"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

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

With these views agree the later doctrines of the Bible as to the "trichotomy" of "body, soul, and spirit" in man, and of the added influence of the Spirit of God as acting on humanity.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William