What does amphiboly mean?
Amphiboly means (grammar) An ambiguous grammatical construction..
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/amˈfɪbəli/ · noun
(grammar) An ambiguous grammatical construction..
1781, Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason," from John Meiklejohn 1855 translation Without this reflection I should make a very unsafe use of these conceptions, and construct pretended synthetical propositions which critical reason cannot acknowledge and which are based solely upon a transcendental amphiboly, that is, upon a substitution of an object of pure understanding for a phenomenon.
By logical errors I mean such simple things as Equivocation, Amphiboly, and Begging the Question.
The language might be fraught with word ambiguity or sentence amphiboly.
Use amphiboly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Amphiboly means (grammar) An ambiguous grammatical construction..
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1781, Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason," from John Meiklejohn 1855 translation Without this reflection I should make a very unsafe use of these conceptions, and construct pretended synthetical propositions which critical reason cannot acknowledge and which are based solely upon a transcendental amphiboly, that is, upon a substitution of an object of pure understanding for a phenomenon.
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