amphiboly

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  An ambiguous grammatical construction.
 * 2) * 1781, Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason," from John Meiklejohn 1855 translation
 * 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.

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.

Translations

 * Hindi:, अनेकार्थकता
 * Polish: amfibolia, amfibologia
 * Tagalog: kabilaninsabi