Crossword-Solution: TRILEMMA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Trilemma | n. | A syllogism with three conditional propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See Dilemma. |
| Trilemma | n. | A state of things in which it is difficult to determine which one of three courses to pursue. |
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| Argument presenting three choices. | 1 answer |
| Problem with three possible outcomes | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMCAZE
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eruption
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Sentences with TRILEMMA (5)
When we consider the one attentively, we see the other bursting from its bosom, or better, the one and the other reveal themselves as one and the same, and we escape from the desperate trilemma, of either denying the lyrical and personal character of art, or of asserting that it is adjunctive, external and accidental, or of excogitating a new doctrine of Aesthetic, which we do not know where to find.
Red Butte Western opinion was somewhat divided as to which horn of the trilemma the victim of Rufford's displeasure would choose, all admitting that, for the moment, the choice lay with the superintendent.
Logicians further speak of the Trilemma, with three Hypotheticals and a corresponding triple Disjunction; and of a Polylemma, with any further number of perplexities.
Let us face a trilemma; three, and only three plans, were possible for God with man:-- First, To have been just with man, without any love or mercy; hence, for every sinner to have suffered the just penalty for his sins, without any redemption.
But the thing is a _trilemma_, and the third horn, on which I elect to be placed, is surmounted by a doubly-stuffed seat.
Quotes with TRILEMMA (2)
In conversion, God interferes with out lives. We relinquish autonomy. If we find the gospel message to be true, we need to surrender to God and change our lives. For that reason - whether or not the trilemma or some form of it works - many will still never assent that Jesus is God.
Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: ‘I’, 'me' and the 'others'. Since the “I” entails what I want; the “me” what others expect of me and the “others” what others themselves want. The bridges between "individuality", “surroundings” and "otherness" can be abysmal and very often waiting to be restored. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1959).