{"id":11488,"date":"2010-07-05T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T11:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/05\/amphiboly\/"},"modified":"2010-07-05T11:24:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T11:24:14","slug":"amphiboly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/05\/amphiboly\/","title":{"rendered":"Amphiboly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Amphiboly is syntactic ambiguity.&#0160; &quot;The foolish fear that God is dead.&quot;&#0160; This sentence is amphibolous because its ambiguity does not have a semantic origin in the multiplicity of meaning of any constituent word, but derives from the ambiguous way the words are put together.&#0160; On one reading, the construction is a sentence: &#39;The foolish\/ fear that God is dead.&#39;&#0160; On the other reading, it is not a sentence, does not express a compete thought, but is a sentence-fragment: &#39; The foolish fear\/that God is dead.&#39;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">A good writer avoids ambiguity except when he intends it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amphiboly is syntactic ambiguity.&#0160; &quot;The foolish fear that God is dead.&quot;&#0160; This sentence is amphibolous because its ambiguity does not have a semantic origin in the multiplicity of meaning of any constituent word, but derives from the ambiguous way the words are put together.&#0160; On one reading, the construction is a sentence: &#39;The foolish\/ fear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/05\/amphiboly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amphiboly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-logica-docens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}