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The fallacy of ____ occurs when the arguer misinterprets an ambiguous statement ...

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The fallacy of ____ occurs when the arguer misinterprets an ambiguous statement and then draws a conclusion based on this faulty interpretation. This happens because the statement may be understood in two different ways.

e.g. "Professor Johnson said that he will give a lecture about heart failure in the biology lecture hall. It must be the case that a number of heart failures have occurred there recently."

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