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What is an amphibology?

What is an amphibology? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (archaic) Amphiboly.
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More to the point, he fells a victim to an obvious amphibology.
An amphibology is a statement that is ambiguous or can be taken in two ways.
Hence this is what we could call the amphibology of cognitive task design.
Insofar as each one of the three words underlined above has more than one meaning, the sentence is an amphibology, and one difficult to translate literally.
No discussion of amphibology would be complete without a few gems from the most amphibolous president in US history.

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