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The Test of the Teaching
Shipley, Joseph T. | July 8, 1931 issue

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The article presents information about the book "Seven Types of Ambiguity," by William Empson. might otherwise draw one on. The ambiguities Mr. Empson considers range from the use of one word in several ways at once, through the use of several devices that mean one thing, to the use of a word in opposite senses, "so that the total effect is to show a fundamental division in the author's mind." The body of the book is devoted to analyses of possible meanings, so detailed as to defy adequate quotation.

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SEVEN Types of Ambiguity (Book); EMPSON, William; AMBIGUITY; QUOTATIONS; MEANING (Philosophy); GRAMMAR, Comparative & general
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