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amphiboly
[ am-fib-uh-lee ]
noun
, plural am·phib·o·lies.
- ambiguity of speech, especially from uncertainty of the grammatical construction rather than of the meaning of the words, as in The Duke yet lives that Henry shall depose.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of amphiboly1
1580–90; < Latin amphibolia < Greek. See amphibolous, -y 3
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Example Sentences
The phrase transcendental object occurs once in the second Analogy and twice in the Note on Amphiboly.
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From the first reference in the Note on Amphiboly no definite conclusions can be drawn.
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The Note on Amphiboly was too unsatisfactory as a whole to encourage Kant to improve upon it in detail.
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Passages which expound it in this later form occur in the Note on Amphiboly and throughout the Dialectic.
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It is, Kant maintains, a typical example of the fallacy of transcendental amphiboly.
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