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Drawing a conclusion from the wrong reading of a syntactically ambiguous statement.

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"The manager discussed the outage with the engineer that caused it" — fire whom, exactly?

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Equivocation's structural sibling: the ambiguity lives in grammar, not vocabulary (043). Contracts and statutes are its natural habitat.