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Lexical vs. Syntactic Ambiguity

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Lexical ambiguity lives in a word; syntactic ambiguity lives in the grammar, where one sentence structure allows multiple readings.

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"Flying planes can be dangerous." The activity, or the aircraft?

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Syntactic ambiguity has its own fallacy: amphiboly.

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