Amphiboly

//amˈfɪbəli//

Synonyms for "amphiboly" (13 found)

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Translations

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Hindi

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  • अनेकार्थकता noun (an ambiguous grammatical construction)
  • संदिग्धता noun (an ambiguous grammatical construction)

Polish

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  • amfibolia noun (an ambiguous grammatical construction)
  • amfibologia noun (an ambiguous grammatical construction)

Tagalog

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  • kabilaninsabi noun (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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By logical errors I mean such simple things as Equivocation, Amphiboly, and Begging the Question.

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The language might be fraught with word ambiguity or sentence amphiboly.

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