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Definition of Amphiboly
1. Noun. An ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., 'they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes.
Definition of Amphiboly
1. n. Ambiguous discourse; amphibology.
Definition of Amphiboly
1. Noun. (grammar) An ambiguous grammatical construction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amphiboly
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Medical Definition of Amphiboly
1. Ambiguous discourse; amphibology. "If it oracle contrary to our interest or humor, we will create an amphiboly, a double meaning where there is none." (Whitlock) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amphiboly
Literary usage of Amphiboly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: In Commemoration of the Centenary by Immanuel Kant (1896)
"APPENDIX OF THE amphiboly OF REFLECTIVE CONCEPTS, OWING TO THE CONFUSION OF THE
EMPIRICAL WITH THE TRANSCENDENTAL USE OF THE UNDERSTANDING Reflection ..."
2. A New Logic by Charles Arthur Mercier (1912)
"The fallacy of amphiboly, or ambiguity in the construction of sentences, is rarely
illustrated in text books of Logic by any other than the stale examples, ..."
3. The Metaphysic of Ethics by Immanuel Kant, John William Semple (1836)
"Of an amphiboly of the Reflex Moral Notions ; whereby Mankind is led to regard
what is only a Duty towards himself, as if it were a Duty owed by him to ..."
4. An Elementary Handbook of Logic by John Joseph Toohey (1918)
"amphiboly is the fallacy arising from ambiguity in the structure of a sentence.
The prophecies of the oracle of Delphi were generally couched in this ..."
5. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"APPENDIX Of the Equivocal Nature or amphiboly of the Conceptions of Reflection
from the Confusion of the Transcendental with the Empirical Use of the ..."
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