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A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of twointerpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs fromequivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.
a verbal fallacy arising from an ambiguous grammatical construction—and derived from a joke on bad punctuation
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