1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Amphibology

←Amphibolite

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 1 Amphibology

Amphictyony→

See also Amphibology on Wikipedia, and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer.

AMPHIBOLOGY, or Amphiboly (Gr. άμφιβολία), in logic, a verbal fallacy arising from ambiguity in the grammatical structure of a sentence (Aristot., Organon, Soph., El., chap. iv.). 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.”