amphiboly
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /amˈfɪbəli/
amphiboly
- (grammar) An ambiguous grammatical construction.
- 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.
- 1931, Adrian Coates, "Philosophy as Criticism and Point of View," Philosophy, vol. 6, no. 23, p. 339,
- By logical errors I mean such simple things as Equivocation, Amphiboly, and Begging the Question.
- 1987, Jeffrey Buechner, "Radically Misinterpreting Radical Interpretation," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 45, no. 4, p. 410,
- The language might be fraught with word ambiguity or sentence amphiboly.
- 1781, Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason," from John Meiklejohn 1855 translation
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