A verbal fallacy may arise from individual terms or from their composition into phrases and propositions.
Term ambiguity: “ʿayn” denotes an eye in one use and a spring in another; an inference may silently treat the uses as identical.
Structural ambiguity: a property of separate elements may be assigned to their combination, or the reverse.
The practical method is to establish each word's sense first, then examine how the words combine to make the proposition.
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Causes of Error: Misunderstanding and Verbal Ambiguities
A verbal fallacy may arise from individual terms or from their composition into phrases and propositions.
Term ambiguity: “ʿayn” denotes an eye in one use and a spring in another; an inference may silently treat the uses as identical.
Structural ambiguity: a property of separate elements may be assigned to their combination, or the reverse.
The practical method is to establish each word's sense first, then examine how the words combine to make the proposition.