Definition of "amphiboly" [am•phib•o•ly]

• An ambiguous grammatical construction. (noun)

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• "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."
• "I think that you'll find the average intellectual capacity here to be more than sufficient to see through weak attempts at confusion through amphiboly."
• "Might I suggest that there would be considerably less bilious acrimony in the comment section in threads such as have been posted in the last few days if people would kindly knock it off with the amphiboly already?"