Logic / Unit 2 Logic 043 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Lexical vs. Syntactic Ambiguity
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The idea
Lexical ambiguity lives in a word; syntactic ambiguity lives in the grammar, where one sentence structure allows multiple readings.
In practice
"Flying planes can be dangerous." The activity, or the aircraft?
Where people slip
Syntactic ambiguity has its own fallacy: amphiboly.
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