An example is the metaphor " time crawled ", which if taken literally is not just false but a category mistake.
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To say that you are not free because you are your body-- which is what determinists do-- is a category mistake.
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The psychological and physiological statements exist in two categorically different reference systems; the main categories are to be emphasised in order to prevent category mistakes.
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Instead, such versions maintain that it is meaningless ( or a category mistake ) to apply the categories of space and time to " universals ".
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The philosopher Massimo Pigliucci distances himself from eliminativism, but he said in 2013 that the hard problem is still misguided, resulting from a " category mistake ":
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Psychological and physiological statements exist in two categorically different reference systems; the important categories are to be emphasised in order to prevent category mistakes as discussed by Nicolai Hartmann.
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To do so would be a category mistake, like asking, " What does the number three taste like ? " or " Why is French so triangular ?"
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As an example of a category mistake, it was used to show the inadequacy of the then-popular probabilistic models of grammar, and the need for more structured models.
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Examples of category mistakes would be questions like, " Can I change my biological father ? " or, " Which weighs more, the color blue or the color yellow ?"
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For Gilbert Ryle ( 1949 ), a category ( in particular a " category mistake " ) is an important semantic concept, but one having only loose affinities to an ontological category.
