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category mistakes

category mistakes is the plural of category mistake.

Meaning of category mistake

Noun

category mistake (plural category mistakes)

  1. A semantic or ontological error by which a property (or category) is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property.
    • It is one big mistake and a mistake of a special kind. 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.1949, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, Hutchinson, page 16
    Synonyms:
    category error

Questions about category mistakes

What is category mistakes the plural of?
Category mistakes is the plural of category mistake.

Words near category mistakes in the dictionary

  1. category five
  2. category fraud
  3. category killer
  4. category killers
  5. category mistake
  6. category mistakes
  7. category reference
  8. category references
  9. category theory
  10. category-mistake
  11. category-mistakes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: category mistakes (page history and authors); category mistake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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