different between amphibiology vs amphibology

English

amphibiology (uncountable)

From French amphibologie, from late Latin amphibologia, earlier amphibolia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (amphibolía, “ambiguity”).

amphibology (countable and uncountable, plural amphibologies)

(archaic) Amphiboly.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.133:
  In Athens men learn'd […] to resolve a sophisticall argument, and to confound the imposture and amphibologie of words, captiously enterlaced together […].
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 4, p. 10,^[1]
  […] there are but two [fallacies] worthy our notation; and unto which the rest may be referred: that is the fallacie of Æquivocation and Amphibologie; which conclude from the ambiguity of some one word, or the ambiguous syntaxis of many put together.

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