Misleading accent
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Misleading accent is the name for several fallacies of ambiguity:
- When only a section of someone's larger text is quoted to try and change the meaning of the text, it's quote mining
- When the stress (and intent) of a sentence is ambiguous, it's a fallacy of accent
- When it's possible to read multiple meanings into a single word, it's equivocation
- When it's possible to read multiple meanings into the grammar of a sentence, it's amphiboly