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Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Ofra Magidor and Richard G. Heck
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2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / a. Category mistakes
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People have dreams which involve category mistakes [Magidor]
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Category mistakes are either syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic [Magidor]
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2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / b. Category mistake as syntactic
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Category mistakes seem to be universal across languages [Magidor]
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Category mistakes as syntactic needs a huge number of fine-grained rules [Magidor]
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Embedded (in 'he said that…') category mistakes show syntax isn't the problem [Magidor]
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2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / c. Category mistake as semantic
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Category mistakes are meaningful, because metaphors are meaningful category mistakes [Magidor]
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The normal compositional view makes category mistakes meaningful [Magidor]
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If a category mistake is synonymous across two languages, that implies it is meaningful [Magidor]
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If a category mistake has unimaginable truth-conditions, then it seems to be meaningless [Magidor]
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Two good sentences should combine to make a good sentence, but that might be absurd [Magidor]
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A good explanation of why category mistakes sound wrong is that they are meaningless [Magidor]
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Category mistakes are neither verifiable nor analytic, so verificationism says they are meaningless [Magidor]
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Category mistakes play no role in mental life, so conceptual role semantics makes them meaningless [Magidor]
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Maybe when you say 'two is green', the predicate somehow fails to apply? [Magidor]
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If category mistakes aren't syntax failure or meaningless, maybe they just lack a truth-value? [Magidor]
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2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / d. Category mistake as pragmatic
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Maybe the presuppositions of category mistakes are the abilities of things? [Magidor]
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Category mistakes suffer from pragmatic presupposition failure (which is not mere triviality) [Magidor]
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Category mistakes because of presuppositions still have a truth value (usually 'false') [Magidor]
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In 'two is green', 'green' has a presupposition of being coloured [Magidor]
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'Numbers are coloured and the number two is green' seems to be acceptable [Magidor]
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2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / e. Category mistake as ontological
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The presuppositions in category mistakes reveal nothing about ontology [Magidor]
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