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Meaning of "category mistake" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CATEGORY MISTAKE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CATEGORY MISTAKE

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Category mistake is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CATEGORY MISTAKE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Category mistake

A category mistake, or category error, is a semantic or ontological error in which things belonging to a particular category are presented as if they belong to a different category, or, alternatively, a property is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property. Thomas Szasz argued that minds are not the sort of things that can be said to be diseased or ill because they belong to the wrong category and that "illness" is a term that can only be ascribed to things like the body; saying that the mind is ill is a misuse of words. Another example is the metaphor "time crawled", which if taken literally is not just false but a category mistake. To show that a category mistake has been committed one must typically show that once the phenomenon in question is properly understood, it becomes clear that the claim being made about it could not possibly be true.

Definition of category mistake in the English dictionary

The definition of category mistake in the dictionary is a sentence that says of something in one category what can only intelligibly be said of something in another, as when speaking of the mind located in space.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CATEGORY MISTAKE

categorial
categorial grammar
categorially
categoric
categorical
categorical imperative
categorically
categoricalness
categories
categorisation
categorise
categorist
categorization
categorize
category
Category A
Category D
category killer
category management
catena

WORDS THAT END LIKE CATEGORY MISTAKE

air-intake
at stake
clbuttic mistake
double take
give-and-take
grubstake
intake
mistake
outtake
overtake
partake
retake
shiitake
slow on the uptake
spelling mistake
stake
sweepstake
take
undertake
uptake

Synonyms and antonyms of category mistake in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «category mistake» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CATEGORY MISTAKE

Find out the translation of category mistake to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of category mistake from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «category mistake» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

之类的错误
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

error de categoría
570 millions of speakers

English

category mistake
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

श्रेणी गलती
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

فئة خطأ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

категория ошибка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

categoria erro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিভাগ ভুল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

erreur de catégorie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesilapan kategori
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kategorienfehler
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カテゴリミス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

카테고리 실수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kesalahan kategori
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

loại sai lầm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வகை தவறு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

श्रेणी चुकिची
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kategori hatası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

categoria errore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Kategoria błąd
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

категорія помилка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

categorie greșeală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατηγορία λάθος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kategorie fout
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kategori misstag
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kategori feil
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of category mistake

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CATEGORY MISTAKE»

The term «category mistake» is used very little and occupies the 157.504 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CATEGORY MISTAKE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about category mistake

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CATEGORY MISTAKE»

Discover the use of category mistake in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to category mistake and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Metaphor and Parable: A Systematic Analysis of the Specific ...
Turbayne's attempt to transform Ryle's characteristic of the category mistake into a definition of the metaphor is associated in principle with the assumption discussed earlier that the formulation and understanding of meaningful sentences are ...
Mogens Stiller Kjärgaard, 1986
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Aristotle: The Collected Papers of Joseph Owens
type of category mistake. A mathematical point is not in itself extended, even though it belongs reductively to the category of quantity. It is not categorized directly as quantity, but reductively as a principle of quantity. The reduction of a thing's ...
Joseph Owens, John R. Catan, 1981
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Estonian Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science
THE THREAT OF CATEGORY-MISTAKE A natural corollary to the idea of distinct levels is that there are problems and answers that could be provided only inside one level. For example, there are properties that are legitimate to attribute to the ...
Rein Vihalemm, 2001
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Michael Leifer: Selected Works on Southeast Asia
10. The. ASEAN. Peace. Process. A. Category. Mistake. An ASEAN Peace Process? The notion of a distinctive ASEAN peace process may fairly be described as a category mistake in the light of the institutional experience of the Association of ...
Michael Leifer, Kin Wah Chin, Leo Suryadinata, 2005
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A Companion to Aristotle
Closer in spirit to Aristotle is the use Gilbert Ryle makes of the idea of categories with his conception of a “category mistake.” Notoriously, Ryle ridicules Descartes' mind-body dualism as the theory of “the Ghost in the Machine” and analyzes ...
Georgios Anagnostopoulos, 2013
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The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition
It is, namely, a category-mistake. It represents the facts of mental life as if they belonged to one logical type or category (or range of types or categories), when they actually belong to another. The dogma is therefore a philosopher's myth.
Gilbert Ryle, 2009
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Category Mistake
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken, 2010
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Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor
But in any event, a genuine category mistake does not occur unless the words in the sentence in question are used in certain senses. Thus, some classic category mistakes can be given meaningful metaphorical interpretations. "Green ideas" ...
Mark Johnson, 1981
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An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis
Perhaps it will suffice to say that there is a category-mistake here. But now we close in on ever smaller categories. "He smoked a cigarette," "He drank some lemonade," "He ate a sandwich." Now suppose we change these around to read, "He ...
John Hospers
10
Philosophy and the Human Sciences
The result is a logical howler, a category mistake. The notion of a category mistake is the technical wedge which Ryle pushes into the mind/body distinction. By hammering away at it with different mental concepts — knowledge, volition, ...
R. J. Anderson, J. A. Hughes, Wes W. Sharrock, 1986

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CATEGORY MISTAKE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term category mistake is used in the context of the following news items.
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More than what we are inclined to do
... the famous French historian who died of AIDS in 1980, Butterfield drives home her point: The label, “homosexual” is a “category mistake,” that ... «Examiner Enterprise, Jul 15»
2
The political outlook after Obergefell
But in the course of a convincing rebuttal to a related proposal, canon lawyer Ed Peters argues that there is a category mistake involved. «Catholic Culture, Jun 15»
3
Coney Island's Art Walls: Conversation or Spectacle?
... call 'Coney Art Walls' an art exhibition is to commit what philosopher Gilbert Ryle would have termed a category mistake.” Viveros-Fauné goes on to describe ... «ArtSlant, Jun 15»
4
Mass shooting indicates white privilege
The author's entire argument rests on a glaring category mistake. If Mike Brown had perpetrated a church massacre, the media would INDEED «Daily Trojan Online, Jun 15»
5
Read like a Catholic: Avoid category mistakes in assessing the new …
You are almost certainly committing this first category mistake. Category Mistake 2: Reversing the Elements of Social Teaching. I am also ... «Catholic Culture, Jun 15»
6
COVER STORY Is 'same-sex marriage' a square peg in a round hole?
Finally, it has to be realised that defining marriage as between same-sex couples involves what in philosophy is known as a category mistake ... «News Weekly, Jun 15»
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Jeffrey Deitch's "Coney Art Walls" Exploits Artists for Real Estate Ploy
To call “Coney Art Walls" an art exhibition is to commit what philosopher Gilbert Ryle would have termed a category mistake—a semantic error ... «artnet News, Jun 15»
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Finders Keepers is not so much a book as a shot-by-shot description …
Bellamy is, without doubt, a horrible piece of work (though his category mistake about who 'owns' Rothstein's writing is shared by Saubers). «Spectator.co.uk, Jun 15»
9
Ancient institution of marriage cannot be meaningfully redefined
Finally, it has to be realised that defining marriage as between same-sex couples involves what in philosophy is known as a category mistake ... «Brisbane Times, May 15»
10
The Pixelated Moron-Maker
Expecting uplift from a passive visual medium seems a type of category mistake. Why watch Charlie Rose when you can read a book? For the ... «American Spectator, May 15»

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