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Amphibology
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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or Amphiboly (Gr. aa4c oXia), in logic, a verbal fallacy arising from ambiguity in the grammatical structure of a sentence (Aristot., Organon, Soph., EL, chap. iv.).
Glaucophane Crocidolite Riebeckite Arfvedsonite Aenigmatite .
It occurs frequently in poetry, owing to the alteration for metrical reasons of the natural order of words; Jevons quotes as an example Shakespeare, Henry VI.: "The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose."
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Amphibology'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/amphibology.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Amphibology'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/amphibology.html. 1910.
