"category mistake" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Popularized by philosopher Gilbert Ryle in The Concept of Mind (1949), where it is applied to the notion of a ghost in the machine.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "category mistakes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "category mistake (plural category mistakes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, Hutchinson, page 16",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A semantic or ontological error by which a property (or category) is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property."
      ],
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          "semantic",
          "semantic"
        ],
        [
          "ontological",
          "ontological"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "category error"
        },
        {
          "word": "category-mistake"
        }
      ],
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        "Gilbert Ryle",
        "The Concept of Mind",
        "category mistake"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "category mistake"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Popularized by philosopher Gilbert Ryle in The Concept of Mind (1949), where it is applied to the notion of a ghost in the machine.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "category mistakes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "category mistake (plural category mistakes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, Hutchinson, page 16",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A semantic or ontological error by which a property (or category) is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property."
      ],
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        [
          "semantic",
          "semantic"
        ],
        [
          "ontological",
          "ontological"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "category error"
        }
      ],
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        "Gilbert Ryle",
        "The Concept of Mind",
        "category mistake"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "category-mistake"
    }
  ],
  "word": "category mistake"
}