Amphiboly in a sentence as a noun

"The fallacy here is embedded in the amphiboly that 'government' in the first part is the same 'legal basis' in the second part.

Got a good following here, everyone's commenting on the less ambiguous aspect, which I'd like to throw out the term amphiboly.

FTR I had to look up "amphiboly": > "Linguistically, an amphiboly is an ambiguity which results from ambiguous grammar, as opposed to one that results from the ambiguity of words or phrases—that is, Equivocation.

We're speaking of an amphiboly in these sentences, which makes me wonder after reading all the commentary what a test would be for resolving amphibolies unambiguously using rules of grammar as folks have dived into in the commentary.

Or, personally I think amphiboly is hilarious and I'd filter it up by +100, although it adds absolutely nothing to a discussion other than joy in my life, however I can see how someone could get sick of it and want to filter it out if they were looking for actual knowledge rather than a rare laugh.

Amphiboly definitions

noun

an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes

See also: amphibology