different between amphiboly vs amphibole

English

Etymology

From Old French amphibolie, from Latin amphibolia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (amphibolía, “ambiguity”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /am?f?b?li/

Noun

amphiboly (countable and uncountable, plural amphibolies)

1. (grammar) An ambiguous grammatical construction.
   • 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.

   • 1931, Adrian Coates, "Philosophy as Criticism and Point of View," Philosophy, vol. 6, no. 23, p. 339,

     By logical errors I mean such simple things as Equivocation, Amphiboly, and Begging the Question.

   • 1987, Jeffrey Buechner, "Radically Misinterpreting Radical Interpretation," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 45, no. 4, p. 410,

     The language might be fraught with word ambiguity or sentence amphiboly.

Usage notes

• Strictly speaking, in an amphiboly the individual words are unambiguous; the ambiguity results entirely from the linguistic manner in which they have been combined.

Derived terms

• amphibology

Translations

See also

• equivocation

References

Anagrams

• ambophily

English

Etymology

From French amphibole, coined by René Just Haüy from Ancient Greek ????????? (amphíbolos, “ambiguous”), in reference to its many forms.

Noun

amphibole (plural amphiboles)

1. (mineralogy) Any of a large group of structurally similar hydrated double silicate minerals, containing various combinations of sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, and aluminium/aluminum
   • 2017, Jason Isbell, "Cumberland Gap":

     Remember when we could see the mountain's peak?

     The sparkle off the amphibole.

Derived terms

• amphibolite

Translations

French

Noun

amphibole f (plural amphiboles)

1. (mineralogy) amphibole

Latin

Adjective

amphibole

1. vocative masculine singular of amphibolus