Sentence examples for category mistake from inspiring English sources

"category mistake" is an acceptable and commonly used phrase in written English.
Generally, it is used to refer to an error in logic or an incorrect categorization of things. For example, you could say, "John committed a category mistake when he classified this object as a vegetable, when in reality it is a fruit."

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category mistake

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A semantic or ontological error by which a property is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property.

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It's just a category mistake.

The pathetic fallacy is a category mistake.

But this is a category mistake.

It seems like a category mistake.

That's a category mistake," he says.

That is a type of nonsense or category mistake.

For Becker, though, these objections involve a "category mistake".

In a way, Velma is making a category mistake.

To pretend otherwise is a dangerous category mistake.

This seems to me a profound category mistake.

Labelling one (relatively unsuccessful) portion of the economy as special is a category mistake.

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