Fallacy(4) Equivocation 含糊其词

A key word is used with two or more meanings in an argument such that the argument fails to make sense once the shifts in meaning are recognized.

关键词在一个论证过程中出现多义。而且如果 一个意思切换到另一个意思时，论证过程不成立。

For Example

        Something must be done.

This is something.

Therefore, this must be done.

Margarine人造黄油 is better than nothing.

Nothing is better than butter.

Therefore margarine is better than butter.

In the first statement, "nothing" really means "dry bread" (such that the sentence means "it is preferable to have margarine [on bread] than nothing at all"), whereas in the second, it means, literally, "no thing" (so the sentence means "there exists no thing that is better than butter").

第一句中的nothing指干面包。第二个指没有东西。

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