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

‘They knew that dichotomy, and not trichotomy, was for our times the law of the nation’s life.’

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

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

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

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