Profiles of Dialogue for Amphiboly

Amphiboly has been widely recognized, starting from the time of Aristotle, as an informal fallacy arising from grammatical ambiguity. This paper applies the profiles of dialogue tool to the fallacy of amphiboly, providing a five-step evidence-based procedure whereby a syntactically ambiguous senten...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Douglas Walton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2020-02-01
Series:Informal Logic
Online Access:https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/5997