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Amphiboly vs Amphibole - What's the difference?

amphiboly | amphibole |

As nouns the difference between amphiboly and amphibole

is that amphiboly is (grammar) an ambiguous grammatical construction while amphibole is (geology) a large group of structurally similar hydrated double silicate minerals, containing various combinations of sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, and aluminium/aluminum.

amphiboly

English

(wikipedia amphiboly)

Noun

(amphibolies)
  • (grammar) An ambiguous grammatical construction.
  • * 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. Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.

    Derived terms

    * amphibology

    See also

    * equivocation

    References

    amphibole

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) A large group of structurally similar hydrated double silicate minerals, containing various combinations of sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, and aluminium/aluminum

    • Derived terms

    * amphibolite