"mistake" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This could not exactly be a straight substitution: to attempt that would involve something like a category mistake.
- Sorry, but that's a category mistake if ever I heard one.
- As a result of this category mistake, total non-communication has occurred between the sociobiologists and their critics (see Bateson, 1982b).
- This is regarded as a category mistake," says scholar and writer Nancy Pearcey.
- This is regarded as a category mistake.
- His critique of Cartesian dualism refers to it as a "category mistake."
- On the other hand, "Most bananas are atheists" is a category mistake.
- Another example is the metaphor "time crawled", which if taken literally is not just false but a category mistake.
- It would be a category mistake.
- Ryle thought this was absurd, and as a kind of error which he called a "category mistake".
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