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Definition of category mistake in English: category mistake(also category error) noun Logic The error of assigning to something a quality or action which can only properly be assigned to things of another category, for example treating abstract concepts as though they had a physical location. Example sentencesExamples - To suggest that embodied chemical properties can solve systemic institutional problems is to commit a serious category mistake.
- In the words of the philosophers, it is a category mistake to put miracles and laws in the same set.
- To apply the political term ‘authoritarian’ to an ontological account may at first seem to be a simple category mistake.
- Indeed, some opponents of temporal-parts theories contend that the theory rests on just such a category mistake - the mistake of treating persisting objects as if they were processes.
- Atheism is primarily an episode in the history of the decline of Christianity, and the idea that there is anything resembling an atheist tradition beyond that limited context is a category mistake.
Definition of category mistake in US English: category mistake(also category error) noun Logic The error of assigning to something a quality or action that can properly be assigned to things only of another category, for example, treating abstract concepts as though they had a physical location. Example sentencesExamples - Indeed, some opponents of temporal-parts theories contend that the theory rests on just such a category mistake - the mistake of treating persisting objects as if they were processes.
- To suggest that embodied chemical properties can solve systemic institutional problems is to commit a serious category mistake.
- To apply the political term ‘authoritarian’ to an ontological account may at first seem to be a simple category mistake.
- Atheism is primarily an episode in the history of the decline of Christianity, and the idea that there is anything resembling an atheist tradition beyond that limited context is a category mistake.
- In the words of the philosophers, it is a category mistake to put miracles and laws in the same set.
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