amphiboly

n. 模棱两可的言辞, 暧昧的词句

发音

UK /amˈfɪbəli/

词形变化

amphibolies 复数 amphibolies

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An ambiguous grammatical construction.

    可数 不可数 语言学

    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.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

amphibology

上位词 1

ambiguity

词源

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

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