trichotomy

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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

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

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

With these views agree the later doctrines of the Bible as to the "trichotomy" of "body, soul, and spirit" in man, and of the added influence of the Spirit of God as acting on humanity.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William

"Power, Wisdom, and Will" surely cannot be a sound trichotomy as applied either to human nature or Divine.

From Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge by Rashdall, Hastings