Amphiboly

//amˈfɪbəli//

"Amphiboly" in a Sentence (3 examples)

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.

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