amphiboly
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amphiboly
(Greek, amphibolos, not regular speech) A sentence whose grammatical structure permits different interpretations, e.g. ‘She suffered a bad taxpayer's dream’ (dream of a bad taxpayer? Bad dream of a taxpayer?). In Kant a transcendental amphiboly is the confusion of an object of pure understanding with appearance.
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amphiboly
IN BRIEF: n. - An ambiguous grammatical construction.
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