This artifice is called equivocation or amphibology; it consists in the use of words that have a natural double meaning; it supposes in him who resorts to it the right to conceal the truth, a right superior to that of the tormentor who questions him. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
It had been an excellent quaere to have posed the devil of Delphos, and must needs have forced him to some strange amphibology. From Wordnik.com. [Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend] Reference
It had been an excellent Quære52 to have posed the Devil of Delphos, 53 and must needs have forced him to some strange amphibology. From Wordnik.com. [Paras 36-70] Reference
He spoke of him afterwards as “that amphibolous being sitting calmly and unmoved on the throne of amphibology, while he cheats and deludes us by his double meaning, covert phraseology, and claps his hands when he sees us involved in his insidious figures of speech, as a spider rejoices over a captured fly.”. From Wordnik.com. [Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation] Reference
Solomon looked astonished — “Xantippe, the wife of Socrates,” said he, “is recorded a termagant and a scold, but with her acetosity his philosophy enabled him to bear; but it is apodictical to me, that whoever has the misfortune to marry you will, without amphibology, have more occasion for patience and philosophy than ever Socrates had.”. From Wordnik.com. [Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments] Reference
B) you need to first teach them what an equivocation or amphibology fallacy is, before they're even equipped to understand why the study doesn't actually say what they think it says. From Wordnik.com. ["MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader] Reference
The world is composed (samskrta) of the stuff of dispositions (samskâra); the two words in their amphibology capture the flimsy fabric of the dependently arisen, its emptiness (see Kapani I. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
There is an. amphibology in the. From Wordnik.com. [The castles of Wolfnorth & Mont Eagle, by St. Ann] Reference
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