Crossword-Solution: AMPHIBOLY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Amphiboly | n. | Ambiguous discourse; amphibology. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “AMPHIBOLY”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| ambiguity of expression, esp where due to a grammatical construction | 1 answer |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "AMPHIBOLY"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Length times width e.g.
?
A
?
R
?
E
?
A
Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AAER
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
29 +1
New Suggestion for "AMPHIBOLY"
Related word tools
Sentences with AMPHIBOLY (5)
See Amphiboly.] A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning.
APPENDIX Of the Equivocal Nature or Amphiboly of the Conceptions of Reflection from the Confusion of the Transcendental with the Empirical use of the Understanding.
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.
For want of this doctrine of transcendental topic, and consequently deceived by the amphiboly of the conceptions of reflection, the celebrated Leibnitz constructed an intellectual system of the world, or rather, believed himself competent to cognize the internal nature of things, by comparing all objects merely with the understanding and the abstract formal conceptions of thought.
For this reason, the exposition of the cause of the amphiboly of these conceptions, as the origin of these false principles, is of great utility in determining with certainty the proper limits of the understanding.