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Category mistake
A favourite kind of "philosophical puzzlement" to which the Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle drew attention. A category mistake occurs when a speaker or writer applies a concept outside the domain in which it can meaningfully be applied (often in the course of formulating some philosophical theory).
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