amphiboly

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The second rejoinder against the argument from ancestrality is one that Alexei has often evoked in our debates over correlationism and which I refer to as "the argument from amphiboly".

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  1. The use of ambiguities; quibbling.
  2. In logic, ambiguity in the meaning of a proposition, arising either from an uncertain syntax or from a figure of speech.
  3. Transcendental amphiboly in the Kantian philosophy, the confusing of conceptions which exist in the understanding a priori (categories) with those which are derived from experience.

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  • The second rejoinder against the argument from ancestrality is one that Alexei has often evoked in our debates over correlationism and which I refer to as "the argument from amphiboly". —  Larval Subjects .
  • An amphiboly is an ambiguous grammatical construction that is very close to an equivocation between two senses of meaning. —  Larval Subjects .
  • 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 For want of this doctrine of transcendental topic, and consequently deceived by the amphiboly of the conceptions of reflection, the celebrated Leibnitz constructed an intellectual system of the world, or rather, believed himself competent to cognize the internal nature of things, by comparing all objects merely with the understanding and the abstract formal conceptions of thought. —  The Critique of Pure Reason
  • An instance of amphiboly may be read on the walls of Windsor —  Deductive Logic
  • Aside from the abusive ad hominems, false dilemmas and amphiboly he employs, his own "blind fundamentalism" is transparent. —  newsobserver.com blogs
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  1. from Latin amphibolia, from Greek ἀμφιβολία, ambiguity, from ἀμφίβολος, ambiguous: see amphibole.
 

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