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单词 amphiboly
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amphibolyn.

/æmˈfɪbəlɪ/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s -ie.
Etymology: < Old French amphibolie, < Latin amphibolia , < Greek ἀμϕιβολία ambiguity. See amphibole n.1
1. Ambiguous discourse; a sentence which may be construed in two distinct senses; a quibble. (See amphibology n., which is the earlier and more popular word.)
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > [noun] > expression containing
amphibologyc1374
ambagea1413
ambiguity1583
ambiguea1592
amphibole1606
amphiboly1610
equivoque1614
dilogy1656
double entendre1673
amphilogy1731
amphibologism1813
equivocality1830
double entente1895
left-hander1920
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 307 What a crafty Amphibolie or Æquivocation.
a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady ii. v. 33 in Wks. (1640) III Come, leave your Schemes, And fine Amphibolies, Parson.
1682 W. Evats tr. H. Grotius Rights War & Peace 199 If a sentence will admit of a double sence, they term it an Amphiboly.
1803 Edinb. Rev. 1 271 The amphibolies..etc. of which Kant speaks, are impossible.
2. A figure of speech: Ambiguity arising from the uncertain construction of a sentence or clause, of which the individual words are unequivocal: thus distinguished by logicians from equivocation, though in popular use the two are confused.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > logical fallacy > other types of fallacy
ignoratio elenchi1559
fallacy of (the) accident1568
fallacy of division?1582
amphiboly1588
amphibology1589
equivocation1605
dominative argument1656
fallacy of the heapa1774
illicit process1827
obscurum per obscurius1842
genetic fallacy1904
type-fallacy1935
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > ambiguous sentence or clause structure
amphiboly1588
amphibology1589
1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. iv. f. 27v, Amphiboly, when the sentence may bee turned both the wayes, so that a man shall be uncertayne what waye to take.
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. vi. 49 Sophisms in the word are six..2. By Amphibolie.
1681 T. Hobbes Art of Rhetoric 162 Now of those fallacies that are joyned together. It is either Amphibolia or the doubtfulness of speech: or [etc.].
1803 Edinb. Rev. 1 262 The perplexing controversies on the divisibility of matter, are the product of a double amphiboly.
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