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Meaning of amphiboly | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
amˈfɪbəli

Definitions

An ambiguous grammatical construction.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“1781, Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason," from John Meiklejohn 1855 translation Without this reflection I should make a very unsafe use of these conceptions, and construct pretended synthetical propositions which critical reason cannot acknowledge and which are based solely upon a transcendental amphiboly, that is, upon a substitution of an object of pure understanding for a phenomenon.”
“By logical errors I mean such simple things as Equivocation, Amphiboly, and Begging the Question.”
“The language might be fraught with word ambiguity or sentence amphiboly.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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