Logic / Unit 8 Logic 397 short lesson, about 20 seconds
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The idea
Drawing a conclusion from the wrong reading of a syntactically ambiguous statement.
In practice
"The manager discussed the outage with the engineer that caused it" — fire whom, exactly?
Where people slip
Equivocation's structural sibling: the ambiguity lives in grammar, not vocabulary (043). Contracts and statutes are its natural habitat.
Your place on the trail
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Unlocks
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