An ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes.
An instance of amphiboly may be read on the walls of Windsor Castle-Hocfecit Wykeham.
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Amphiboly, Fallacy of, 848.
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AMPHIBOLOGY, or AMPHIBOLY (Gr.
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Of the Equivocal Nature or Amphiboly of the Conceptions of Reflection from the Confusion of the Transcendental with the Empirical use of the Understanding.