What Does Amphibologies Mean?

: a sentence or phrase (such as "nothing is good enough for you") that can be interpreted in more than one way.

What is Amphibology the study of?

Syntactic ambiguity, also called structural ambiguity, amphiboly or amphibology, is a situation where a sentence may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous sentence structure. ...

What is Amphibology and example?

verbal fallacies

(2) Amphiboly occurs when the grammar of a statement is such that several distinct meanings can obtain (example: “The governor says, 'Save soap and waste paper. ' So soap is more valuable than paper.”). ... A typical fallacy due to the combination or division of words is an ambiguity of scope.

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