amphiboly

1. (grammar) An ambiguous grammatical construction.Examples: "1781, Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason," from John Meiklejohn 1855 translation 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."; "By logical errors I mean such simple things as Equivocation, Amphiboly, and Begging the Question."; "The language might be fraught with word ambiguity or sentence amphiboly."countableuncountable