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.
〔逻〕范畴错误
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.
〔逻〕范畴错误
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.

词汇	category mistake
释义	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. 〔逻〕范畴错误 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. 〔逻〕范畴错误 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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