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==See also== {{Portal|Philosophy|Psychology}} {{Div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Antanaclasis]]: A related purposeful rhetorical device * [[Circumlocution]]: Phrasing to explain something without saying it * [[Organizational information theory#Equivocality|Equivocality: Organizational information theory]] * [[Etymological fallacy]]: A kind of linguistic misconception * [[Evasion (ethics)]]: Tell the truth while deceiving * [[False equivalence]]: Fallacy based on flawed reasoning * [[If-by-whiskey]]: An example * [[Map-territory relation]]: Concept that words used to describe an underlying reality are arbitrary abstractions not to be confused with the reality itself * [[Mental reservation]]: A doctrine in moral theology * [[No true Scotsman]]: Changing a definition to exclude a counter-example * [[Persuasive definition]]: Skewed definition of term * [[Plausible deniability]]: A blame-shifting technique * [[Polysemy]]: The property of word or phrase having certain type of multiple meanings * [[Principle of explosion]]: One of the fundamental laws in logic * [[Syntactic ambiguity]], Amphiboly, Amphibology: Ambiguity of a sentence by its grammatical structure * [[When a white horse is not a horse]]: An example {{Div col end}}
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