amphiboly

noun
/amˈfɪbəli/UK

Etymology

From Old French amphibolie, from Latin amphibolia, from Ancient Greek ἀμφιβολία (amphibolía, “ambiguity”).

  1. derived from ἀμφιβολία
  2. derived from amphibolia
  3. derived from amphibolie

Definitions

  1. An ambiguous grammatical construction.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for amphiboly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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