Equivocation–Usingwords with ambiguous or multiple meanings to lead to an unsupported conclusion.
Examples:
It isn’t nice to say that you are“critiquing” someone’s speech, because being critical isn’t nice. However, even
though the two words share a common root, they have different meanings–being
critical is negative; critiquing is providing a detailed analysis, which can
include both positive and negative elements.
Since there are laws of nature, andlaws are dictated by someone, that implies a lawgiver (a god). Actually, the
word “law” has multiple meanings, and this usage means regularly occurring and
apparently inevitable in nature, with no reference to a lawgiver.