单词 | amphiboly |
释义 | amphibolyn. 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.) ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1884; most recently modified version published online November 2010). < |
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