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Ambiguity Fallacies
Disciplines > Argument > Fallacies > Ambiguity Fallacies
Some fallacies fail due to ambiguity in given statements, where multiple meanings are possible and hence no single, clear meaning is available.
- Accent: Emphasis that changes the meaning of the sentence.
- Accident: A general rule used to explain a specific case not covered by it.
- Amphiboly: A sentence has two different meanings.
- Appeal to Common Belief: If others believe it to be true, it must be true.
- Composition: Generalizing from a few to the whole set.
- Division: Assuming the parts have the characteristics of the whole.
- Equivocation: A single word with more than one meaning.
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