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Process-Product Ambiguity

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Process-Product Ambiguity / Act-Object Ambiguity

The Logical Fallacy of Process-Product Ambiguity / Act-Object Ambiguity occurs when a statement is unclear as to whether it is referring to a process or the product of the process.

Examples of the The Logical Fallacy of Process-Product Ambiguity / Act-Object Ambiguity

The word, "work," could refer to the work someone does or the results of the work someone did.


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Ambiguity

Barnum Effect

Ambiguous Assertion

Innuendo

Sly Suggestion

Syntactic Ambiguity

Lexical Ambiguity

Homonymy

Shingle Speech

Use-Mention Error

Double Entendre

Misuse of Etymology

Garden Path Ambiguity

Squinting Modifier

Quantifier Shift

Illicit Observation

Metaphorical Ambiguity

Euphemism

Equivocation

Redefinition

Middle Puzzle Part

Idiosyncratic Language

Type-Token Ambiguity

Misconditionalization

Modal Scope Fallacy

Scope Fallacy

Ambiguous Middle

Hypnotic Bait and Switch

Definist Fallacy

Defining a Word in Terms of Itself

Socratic Fallacy

Defining Terms Too Broadly

Defining Terms Too Narrowly

Failure to Elucidate

Persuasive Definition

Composition / Exception Fallacy

Division

Etymological Fallacy

Nominalization

Inference from a Label

Pigeonholing Fallacy

Category Mistake

Conjunction Fallacy

Disjunction Fallacy

Information Overload

Proof by Verbosity

Argument by Gibberish

Confusing Contradiction with Contrariety

Type-Token Ambiguity

Conceptual Fallacy

Mistaking an Entity for a Theory

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