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	Logical Fallacy: Amphiboly
		Linguistically, an amphiboly is an ambiguity which results from ambiguous grammar, as opposed to one that results from the ambiguity of words or phrases—that is, Equivocation.
		The fallacy of Amphiboly occurs when a bad argument trades upon grammatical ambiguity to create an illusion of cogency.
		Amphibolies are often linguistic boobytraps, but less frequently do they occur in fallacious arguments.
	www.fallacyfiles.org /amphibol.html (359 words)

	Amphiboly (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Of all the fallacies, Amphiboly is the most fun.
		As far as I know, Amphiboly mimics good reasoning in precisely the same way that Equivocation does: if the shift in meaning is subtle enough, it may simply go unnoticed.
		Judged by its frequency of occurrence, or its deleterious effect on public discourse, I doubt that Amphiboly is a very important fallacy; but, it is among the oldest of recognized fallacies, and its humor value assures it a place on most lists.
	www.cuyamaca.net /bruce.thompson/Fallacies/amphiboly.asp (299 words)

	120review-ch5 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amphiboly: the claim could be that my participating in the acft of huning is not good or that my particular hunting ability is not good.
		Amphiboly: the claim could be that the dog is your dog or that the dog is your mother.
		Amphiboly: the claim could be that there is stain on Sues jacket or that there is a stain on Sue's mother's jacket.
	www.philosophy.ubc.ca /faculty/russellj/120review-ch5.htm (279 words)

	Amphiboly
		As with other forms of ambiguity, amphiboly can cause confusion and hence puts the other person into a state where they are open to different ideas.
		Thus the obvious meaning is stated with the intent that the secondary meaning is interpreted only at the subconscious level.
		A common form of amphiboly is where an adjective is used with two nouns (e.g.
	changingminds.org /disciplines/argument/fallacies/amphiboly.htm (120 words)

	ZEFRANK.COM - message board - View Single Post - The Dictionary Game
		AMPHIBOLY -- From Amphi, meaning dual, and Bolus, meaning a soft mass of chewed food, amphiboly is the early stage of rumination in cows and other cud-chewing animals when the liquids and solids have yet to coalesce into a cohesive mass.
		AMPHIBOLY (n) - the practice of drinking sparkling white wine from art nouveau or arts and crafts/mission style vases - from the greek, amphora, and the french, bollinger.
		AMPHIBOLY -- (n) - The realization that one is able to safely engage in activities both in and out of the water, usually reached developmentally by about the age of four.
	www.zefrank.com /bulletin/showpost.php?p=260507&postcount=14 (477 words)

	Amphiboly (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As far as I know, Amphiboly mimics good reasoning in precisely the same way that Equivocation does: if the shift in meaning is subtle enough, it may simply go unnoticed.
		Judged by its frequency of occurrence, or its deleterious effect on public discourse, I doubt that Amphiboly is a very important fallacy; but, it is among the oldest of recognized fallacies, and its humor value assures it a place on most lists.
		A Fallacy of Ambiguity (a fallacy of soundness in which we cannot tell whether the fallacy occurs in the major premiss or the minor premiss).
	www.cuyamaca.edu /bruce.thompson/Fallacies/amphiboly.asp (299 words)

	REMARK ON THE AMPHIBOLY OF THE CONCEPTIONS OF REFLECTION.
		Our table of the conceptions of reflection gives us the unexpected advantage of being able to exhibit the distinctive peculiarities of his system in all its parts, and at the same time of exposing the fundamental principle of this peculiar mode of thought, which rested upon naught but a misconception.
		For this reason, the exposition of the cause of the amphiboly of these conceptions, as the origin of these false principles, is of great utility in determining with certainty the proper limits of the understanding.
		And yet the whole intellectual system of Leibnitz is based upon this false principle, and with it must necessarily fall to the ground, together with all the ambiguous principles in reference to the employment of the understanding which have thence originated.
	www.rbjones.com /rbjpub/philos/classics/kant/kant068.htm (3503 words)

	answers ambiguity 2002
		Amphiboly: The billboard sign could be understood to assert: (a) come to us to get an unwanted pregnancy; or (b) come to us to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy.
		Amphiboly: Rather than meaning that the elderly burn their victims, the headline probably intended to convey that the elderly are often the victims of burns.
		Amphiboly: We seem to be told that if we want to experience the pain and agony of hell, then we should come to church next Sunday and listen to the new minister.
	faculty.uccb.ns.ca /philosophy/115/answers2.htm (1643 words)

	Rev. Cwirla's Blogosphere - Amphiboly (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amphibolies are a stock in trade in comedy, such as Abbott and Costello’s classic “Who’s on First?
		The way to deal with amphiboly is to identify the ambiguous word or phrase that causes the sentence to veer off like a wayward rocket.
		Amphiboly is such a fun word to say -- so much better than equivication which sounds snooty.
	blog.higherthings.org /wcwirla/article/547.html (1099 words)

	The Last Days of Socrates (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An amphiboly is a statement whose meaning is indeterminate in a peculiar way.
		The statement has an obvious meaning which is false and a hidden or concealed meaning which is true.
		Socrates realizes that the oracle's statement, "There is no man wiser (than Socrates)" as an amphiboly.
	socrates.clarke.edu /aplg0264.htm (137 words)

	Amphiboly fallacy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Same as amphiboly fallacy the whole human aspirations, emotions, as the argument is done hastily.
		This is a radical feminist and she simply concluded that it catching amphiboly fallacy themselves and me. I read a new tax is higher standards of contents isought.
		Amphiboly fallacy joe and sam are at the timehollered out from adults who was dying of cancer.
	fallacy.fubarentertainment.com /amphiboly-fallacy.html (1202 words)

	AMPHIBOLY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But if we wish to advance to the objects with these concepts, we must first resort to transcendental reflection, in order to determine for which cognitive faculty they are to be objects, whether for pure understanding or for sensibility.
		In the absence of such reflection, the use of these concepts is very unsafe, giving birth to alleged synthetic principles, which the critical reason cannot recognize, and which are based on nothing better than a transcendental amphiboly, that is, a confounding of an object of pure understanding with appearance.
		For this reason the exposition of the cause of what is deceptive -- occasioning these false principles -- in the amphiboly of these concepts, is of great utility as a reliable method of determining and securing the limits of the understanding.
	www.phil.pku.edu.cn /res/files/kant/CPR/12.html (5748 words)

	sence incertaine and ambiguous and amphiboly and amphibology and equivocation and Greek
		There is a direct line of continuity from amphiboly in Greek to ambiguus in Latin to ambiguous in English to amphiboly/amphibology in English.
		Yet it could both be used synonymously with amphiboly in the 17th century and could be used in the quite "modern" wy as synonymous with a lie by the 18th century.
		But, as luck would have it, amphiboly has just about dropped out of the language today so that it must be frustrating for logicians who really know their history to make this nice distinction and then realize that no one has heard of one of the terms that they are distinguishing!
	www.drbilllong.com /MoreWords/AmbiguityIII.html (733 words)

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