category mistake

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

category mistakes plural category-mistake alternative

词源

Popularized by philosopher Gilbert Ryle in The Concept of Mind (1949), where it is applied to the notion of a ghost in the machine.
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