Seventy-two per cent of wrongful convictions involve a mistaken eyewitness.
Yet another nightmare story has emmerged involving a mistaken foreclosure.
The burden is on the anti-realists about morality to argue that that this involves a mistake of some sort.
Would it then be right to blame and punish people for their bad choices, or would believing people are free and holding them morally responsible involve a mistake?
"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.
Forty-two percent said they had had duplicate tests ordered, had received care that involved a mistake, believed their doctor recommended unnecessary care, or were frustrated that one of their caregivers failed to provide needed medical information to other clinicians.
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".
