A form of lexical ambiguity in words of related etymology (e.g. foot (of a human/of a mountain)). Systematic equivocation arises when two meanings occur in various word forms in the vocabulary: take, for example, the meanings ‘action’ or...

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Equivocation, also known as amphibology, is classified as both a formal and informal fallacy. It is the misleading use of a word with more than one meaning (by glossing over which meaning is intended at a particular...