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Category Mistakes
DEFINITION:
Ascription of a property to a bearer which cannot be a bearer of SUCH a property.
EXAMPLES:
o Truth-(conditions-)in-context
o Application of truth to utterance actions
o Equation of meaning with use (Wittgenstein)
o Interpretation of 'performative utterance' as 'utterance of a performative'
o Conclusion from subjectivity (... of notions) to non-existence (of the corresponding extension)