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Amphibology

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

or Amphiboly (Gr. aa4c oXia), in logic, a verbal fallacy arising from ambiguity in the grammatical structure of a sentence (Aristot., Organon, Soph., EL, chap. iv.).

Glaucophane Crocidolite Riebeckite Arfvedsonite Aenigmatite .

It occurs frequently in poetry, owing to the alteration for metrical reasons of the natural order of words; Jevons quotes as an example Shakespeare, Henry VI.: "The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose."

Bibliography Information
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Amphibology'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​a/amphibology.html. 1910.