Amphiboly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /amˈfɪbəli/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Amphiboly is a noun meaning (grammar) An ambiguous grammatical construction.
Meaning
(grammar) An ambiguous grammatical construction.
Example Sentences
The language might be fraught with word ambiguity or sentence amphiboly.
By logical errors I mean such simple things as Equivocation, Amphiboly, and Begging the Question.
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.
Word Forms
- amphibolies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include equivocal, anacoluthia, anacoluthon, equivoque, accentus, ambiposition.
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