Category:
Definition: The same term is used with two different meanings
Examples:
Proof:
The same term is used with two different meanings. There are two ways in which this can occur.
(i) The word or phrase may be ambiguous, in which case it has more than one distinct meaning.
(ii) The word or phrase may be vague, in which case it has no distinct meaning.
Identify the word which is used twice, then show that a definition which is appropriate for one use of the word would not be appropriate for the second use. (Barker: 163, Cedarblom and Paulsen: 142, Copi and Cohen: 113, Davis: 58)