English
Noun
en-noun|amphibolies
#grammar An ambiguous grammatical construction.
#*1931, Adrian Coates, "Philosophy as Criticism and Point of View," Philosophy, vol. 6, no. 23, p. 339,
#*:By logical errors I mean such simple things as Equivocation, Amphiboly, and Begging the Question.
#*1987, Jeffrey Buechner, "Radically Misinterpreting Radical Interpretation," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 45, no. 4, p. 410,
#*:The language might be fraught with word ambiguity or sentence amphiboly.
Usage notes
Strictly speaking, in an amphiboly the individual words are unambiguous; the ambiguity results entirely from the linguistic manner in which they have been combined. <ref>Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.</ref>
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