Sentence examples for category mistakes from inspiring English sources

how do they exist?—amount to category mistakes, equivalent to asking the color of virtue.

In fact, it could be maintained that the Imaginary invariably involves category mistakes.

Text and textuality helped create a post-positivist geography; however these concepts encourage overinterpretation, category mistakes, and utopianism.

Students can simultaneously activate two or more ideas, images, or thoughts and have them interact, prompt thought experiments, change cognitive perspectives, raise new points of view, and risk category mistakes.

Finally, the fallacy that Aristotle calls form of expression exploits the kind of ambiguity made possible by what we have come to call category mistakes, in this case, fitting words to the wrong categories.

In addition to vacuous singular expressions, gap-based analyses have been proposed for future contingents (following one reading of Aristotle's exposition of the sea-battle; cf. §2 above) and category mistakes (e.g. "The number 7 likes/doesn't like to dance").

The pathetic fallacy is a category mistake.

But this is a category mistake.

It seems like a category mistake.

In a way, Velma is making a category mistake.

To pretend otherwise is a dangerous category mistake.