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amphiboly|æmˈfɪbəlɪ|
Also 6–7 -ie.
[a. OFr. amphibolie, ad. L. amphibolia, a. Gr. ἀµϕιβολία ambiguity. See amphibole.]
1. Ambiguous discourse; a sentence which may be construed in two distinct senses; a quibble. (See amphibology, which is the earlier and more popular word.)
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 307 What a crafty Amphibolie or æquivocation. 1632B. Jonson Magn. Lady ii. i, Come, leave your schemes, And fine amphibolies, parson. 1682W. Evats Grotius, War & Peace 199 If a sentence will admit of a double sence, they term it an Amphiboly. 1803Edin. Rev. I. 271 The amphibolies..etc. of which Kant speaks, are impossible.
2. A figure of speech: Ambiguity arising from the uncertain construction of a sentence or clause, of which the individual words are unequivocal: thus distinguished by logicians from equivocation, though in popular use the two are confused.
1588Fraunce Lawiers Log. i. iv. 27 b, Amphiboly, when the sentence may bee turned both the wayes, so that a man shall be uncertayne what waye to take. 1660Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 247/1 Sophisms in the Word are six..2. By Amphibolie. 1681Hobbes Rhet. 162 Now of those fallacies that are joyned together. It is either Amphibolia or the doubtfulness of speech: or etc. 1803Edin. Rev. I. 262 The perplexing controversies on the divisibility of matter, are the product of a double amphiboly. |