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Is this equivocation?I told a friend of mine that my car broke down and is beyond repairable. So he asked what happened to it. I told him it caught fire and everything under the hood is all burnt up. He said actually it is repairable. The problem is when people talk about car repairs, we are usually referring to affordable car repairs. So is the word repair being used in the wrong context?
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| asked on Tuesday, Sep 20, 2016 04:07:57 AM by Kris | |
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This reminds me of the Steven Wright joke "Everything is walking distance if you have the time." There is a deliberate attempt to conceal the truth or mislead with equivocation, I don't see that from your example, but you know your friend better than I. Perhaps your friend thought it would be cheaper to fix than replace? Maybe he was being ironic?
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| answered on Tuesday, Sep 20, 2016 06:59:10 AM by Bo Bennett, PhD |
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