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* [[Syntactic ambiguity|amphiboly]] – when a sentence may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous sentence structure.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hhMuEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA139 |page=139 |title=Falsehood and Fallacy: How to Think, Read, and Write in the Twenty-First Century |author=Bethany Kilcrease |year=2021 |isbn=9781487588618 |publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]]}}</ref> | * [[Syntactic ambiguity|amphiboly]] – when a sentence may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous sentence structure.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hhMuEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA139 |page=139 |title=Falsehood and Fallacy: How to Think, Read, and Write in the Twenty-First Century |author=Bethany Kilcrease |year=2021 |isbn=9781487588618 |publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]]}}</ref> | ||
While '''imprecise language''' is not desirable in various scientific fields, it may be helpful, illustrative or discussion-stimulative in other contexts.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ejrbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Imprecise+language%22+useful |title=Datamation |volume=29 |page=258 |issue=4 |year=1983 |publisher=[[Cahners Publishing Company]]}}</ref> Imprecision in a discourse may or may not be the intention of the author(s) or speaker(s). The role of imprecision may depend on audience, end goal, extended context and subject matter. Relevant players and real stakes will also bear on [[truth-grounds]] of statements.{{ | While '''imprecise language''' is not desirable in various scientific fields, it may be helpful, illustrative or discussion-stimulative in other contexts.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ejrbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Imprecise+language%22+useful |title=Datamation |volume=29 |page=258 |issue=4 |year=1983 |publisher=[[Cahners Publishing Company]]}}</ref> Imprecision in a discourse may or may not be the intention of the author(s) or speaker(s). The role of imprecision may depend on audience, end goal, extended context and subject matter. Relevant players and real stakes will also bear on [[truth-grounds]] of statements.<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 October 2022 |title=11 - Vagueness and Discourse Dynamics from Part VI - Determining and Questioning |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/linguistics-meets-philosophy/vagueness-and-discourse-dynamics/C0744A627669C5C23FDD18EB583C25EC |url-status=live}}</ref> | ||
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