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amphiboly

/am-fib-uh-lee/US // æmˈfɪb ə li //

两栖动物,水陆两用,两栖类,水陆两栖

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural am·phib·o·lies.

    • : ambiguity of speech, especially from uncertainty of the grammatical construction rather than of the meaning of the words, as in The Duke yet lives that Henry shall depose.

Examples

  • The phrase transcendental object occurs once in the second Analogy and twice in the Note on Amphiboly.

  • From the first reference in the Note on Amphiboly no definite conclusions can be drawn.

  • The Note on Amphiboly was too unsatisfactory as a whole to encourage Kant to improve upon it in detail.

  • Passages which expound it in this later form occur in the Note on Amphiboly and throughout the Dialectic.

  • It is, Kant maintains, a typical example of the fallacy of transcendental amphiboly.