amphibologia

Updated: May 20, 2025

And now I draw attention to another point. "How should he know!" What! I suppose that we are to think every man a knave till he is proved not to be such. Know! had he no friend to tell him whether I was "affected" or "artificial" myself? Could he not have done better than impute equivocation to me, at a time when I was in no sense answerable for the amphibologia of the Roman casuists?

John Henry Newman - Apologia pro Vita Sua