Amphibology

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An ambiguous or equivocal statement.
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  • n. Amphiboly.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The use of ambiguous phrases or statements.
  • n. In logic, a sentence which is ambiguous from uncertainty with regard to its construction, but not from uncertainty with regard to the meaning of the words forming it.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ambiguity   
    Cross Reference
    fallacy of amphibology   
     
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