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An ambiguous grammatical construction
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amphiboly
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Word definitions for amphiboly in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amphiboly \Am*phib"o*ly\, n.; pl. Amphibolies . [L. amphibolia, Gr. ?: cf. OE. amphibolie. See Amphibolous .] Ambiguous discourse; amphibology. If it oracle contrary to our interest or humor, we will create an amphiboly, a double meaning where there is ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes [syn: amphibology ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context grammar English) An ambiguous grammatical construction.
Usage examples of amphiboly.
Without this reflection our use of these concepts would be very uncertain, and synthetical propositions would spring up which critical reason cannot acknowledge, and which are simply founded on transcendental amphiboly, that is, on our confounding an object of the pure understanding with a phenomenon.
For this reason the exposition of the cause of the misunderstanding, which lies in the amphiboly of these concepts, as the origin of false principles, is of great utility in determining and securing the true limits of the understanding.
Of the Amphiboly of Reflective Concepts, owing to the Confusion of the Empirical with the Transcendental Use of the Understanding Second Division.