Criteria for Identifying Category Mistakes

• Malik Luke

Abstract

In this article, I introduce a way to identify the occurrence of a category mistake. Sentences and parts of certain sentences are said to indicate category mistakes. Category mistakes are not identified with sentences and their parts, but with acts. Therefore, I talk about sentences and sentence parts as indicating category mistakes. Sentences that are indicative of category mistakes are distinguished from misclassifications, actually false, nomologically false, metaphysically false, and some meaningless sentences. Also, a kind of predicate that cannot figure in category mistakes is identified. Some sentences and sentence parts that are indicative of category mistakes are shown to be meaningless, but others are taken to be merely false. I end by noting some of the ramifications of the criteria presented.

Journal

• Philosophia OSAKA

  Philosophia OSAKA 16 21-37, 2021-03

  Philosophy and History of Philosophy / Studies on Modern Thought and Culture, Division of Studies on Cultural Forms, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University

Details

• CRID: 1390290699795582592
• NII Article ID: 120006953368
• NII Book ID: AA12121507
• DOI: 10.18910/78341
• HANDLE: 11094/78341
• ISSN: 1880862X
• Text Lang: en
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