"category error" meaning in All languages combined

See category error on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: category errors [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} category error (plural category errors)
  1. Synonym of category mistake Synonyms: category mistake [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-category_error-en-noun-c-q8OIBA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022, China Miéville, chapter 1, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC",
          "text": "So, is lambasting the Manifesto for inaccuracy a category error, akin, say, to fact-checking a slogan?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
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          "ref": "2022, China Miéville, chapter 1, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC",
          "text": "So, is lambasting the Manifesto for inaccuracy a category error, akin, say, to fact-checking a slogan?",
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