10. Semantic vs. Syntactic Ambiguity In the last lecture we learned what ambiguity was and we saw some examples that helped you to understand why it's important for us to have ambiguity in our language [00:00:17] today, before turning to the topic of fallacies of equivocation, the fallacies that ambiguity gives rise to. I want to talk briefly about a difference between two kinds of ambiguity. We call them semantic ambiguity and syntactic ambiguity. Semantic ambiguity is where you have a single word or maybe a phrase that has two different meanings. [00:00:46] In the last lecture I gave the example of the phrase, the third member of the series, what you're talking about. When you refer to the third member of the series is going to depend on which particular series you have in mind, you're going to have different series in mind, in different situations. And so the phrase, the third member of the series is going to refer to different things in different situations. [00:01:14] T...