(1) The pivotal role of Being is the result of a functional doubling or what he calls an " amphibology " in the meaning of Being.(2) Self-destructive treason and the haunting discourse of amphibology reduce the play to the strutting and fretting of a poor player upon the stage of political battle, ultimately, in its amphibolic circularity, full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing.(3) There are six linguistic fallacies: equivocation, amphiboly or amphibology , accent, composition, division, and figure of speech or parallel-word construction.(4) More to the point, he fells a victim to an obvious amphibology .(5) An amphibology is a statement that is ambiguous or can be taken in two ways.(6) What you said is right but I smell an amphibology here.(7) Insofar as each one of the three words underlined above has more than one meaning, the sentence is an amphibology , and one difficult to translate literally.(8) Criseyde intends to enchant her father so much that he will pay no attention to Appollo's amphibologies or ambiguities.(9) It is his love of amphibologies , words which simultaneously swim in different semantic streams, which the author takes to facilitate if not justify this ambivalence towards subjective expression.(10) What is perhaps most revealing about his text is its composite character, as it enacts what Browne might have called the ‘ amphibologies ,’ the ambiguous frames of mind of which micrography is the theater.(11) I think deliberate amphibologies are used in drafting to get to agreement more than we might like to think.(12) An amphibolous sentence permits a double interpretation, one view of which may be true and the other false.(13) But on the other, demand for too much clarity bogs things down: it is paralysis by strict literalism, and, I believe, it is often meant to detract from a particular interlocutor's argument (it is to suggest that he is vague, clumsy, amphibolous or stupid, i.e., it's a veiled ad hominem), or it is meant to draw attention to oneself, one's needs, or one's dizzying and exacting intellect.(14) No discussion of amphibolgy would be complete without a few gems from the most amphibolous president in US history.(15) Demonstrating remarkable figurai acumen, his amphibolous ‘its’ is a delicious example of the conflation that enables the slippage between agent and agency.(16) I introduce a general method, the amphibologization method, to generate amphibologies in pre-existent logical calculi.
