amphiboly
noun/amˈfɪbəli/UK
Etymology
From Old French amphibolie, from Latin amphibolia, from Ancient Greek ἀμφιβολία (amphibolía, “ambiguity”).
- derived from ἀμφιβολία
- derived from amphibolia
- derived from amphibolie
Definitions
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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