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Definition of Trilemmas
1. trilemma [n] - See also: trilemma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trilemmas
Literary usage of Trilemmas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Universalism Against Itself: Or an Examination and Refutation of the by Alexander Wilford Hall (1846)
"Thus my opponent is cornered and hemmed in, until escape from the foregoing
doubled and twisted dilemmas, and trilemmas, is rendered, I conceive, ..."
2. The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy (1905)
"... and the drawing for it, and to go and wipe off the wet and freezing child and
so take him into the house. The whole of life consists of such trilemmas. ..."
3. Logic: In Three Books, of Thought, of Investigation, and of Knowledge by Hermann Lotze (1888)
"... trilemmas) are syllogisms with a disjunctive U of many members in the major
ZU, and the same number of minors, which taken together affirm of each one ..."
4. Works by Leo Tolstoy (1905)
"... and the drawing for it, and to go and wipe off the wet and freezing child and
so take him into the house. The whole of life consists of such trilemmas. ..."
5. Universalism Against Itself: A Scriptural Analysis of the Doctrine by Alexander Wilford Hall (1883)
"I have no disposition, neither should I take time if I had, to follow him through
all his syllogisms, dilemmas, trilemmas, &c., &c., for this would not only ..."
6. Philosophy Historical and Critical: By André Lefèvre. Tr. with an by André Lefèvre (1879)
"But .there is one metaphysical idea, that of God and Providence, against which
he has grouped a scries of unanswerable dilemmas and trilemmas. ..."
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