| category mistake | |
| —n | |
| philosophy, logic a sentence that says of something in one category what can only intelligibly be said of something in another, as when speaking of the mind located in space | |
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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| Main Entry: | category mistake1 |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | an error in assigning an attribute to something that can only be assigned to items of another category, e.g. saying an abstract object has a physical location |
| Main Entry: | category mistake2 |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | an error in the classification of something |