"This is not a crime involving a mistake in judgment, it's not about the administration of drugs per se … the offence charged and proven in this case is a homicide," Judge Pastor ruled.
In both cases, the suggestion is that the thoughts at issue involve a mistake or a failed presupposition, and that, because of this, they cannot be true.
Seventy-two per cent of wrongful convictions involve a mistaken eyewitness.
One can pose the question whether 3 ∈ 4, but not cogently: this question involves a category mistake.
From this linguistic phenomenology Ryle argued that Cartesian mind-body dualism involves a category mistake (the logic or grammar of mental verbs — "believe", "see", etc. — does not mean that we ascribe belief, sensation, etc., to "the ghost in the machine").
"In short, Searle's description of the robot's pseudo-brain (that is, of Searle-in-the-robot) as understanding English involves a category-mistake comparable to treating the brain as the bearer, as opposed to the causal basis, of intelligence".
For Becker, though, these objections involve a "category mistake".
Mr Cameron repeated his view that the Downey case involved a "dreadful mistake made by the PSNI".
Bill Pennington writes about the five-year saga involving a giant mistake of a contract and an overmatched pitcher, a huge organization digging in and a quiet, somewhat mysterious Japanese pitcher with a sense of honor and a durable love of the game.
Reds boss Brendan Rodgers described the sending-off at the time as "a really disappointing decision" but Uefa rules permit an appeal only "where a decision by the referee involves an obvious error (such as mistaking the identity of the person penalised)".
