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homonym Biology a name for a species or genus that should be unique but has been used for two or more different organisms How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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4) the following excerpt again illuminates that obvious homonymous trip which, indubitably, will never be flagged by a patently decontextualized automated spellchecker software: "The various types of evaluation methods used in libraries can be categorized as questionnaires, interviews, numbers-gathering, and observation (Johnson 1996). Evaluation of the visual fields showed left homonymous hemianopsia. In retrospect, it is ironic that Russell drew rhetorical support from logical positivist strictures against the reification of natural language, since a German or French speaker could easily see that only an anglophone like Russell could be misled by the homonymous use of 'knowledge' to conclude that 'knowledge by acquaintance' and 'knowledge by inference' must have something in common that is captured by the word 'knowledge'. |
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