Criteria for Identifying Category Mistakes

Malik, Luke

Philosophia OSAKA, 2021, 16, 21-37

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Title
Criteria for Identifying Category Mistakes
Creator
NRID
1000060791564 1000060791564
Scopus Author ID
56995782600 56995782600
CreatorName
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.
Publisher
Philosophy and History of Philosophy / Studies on Modern Thought and Culture, Division of Studies on Cultural Forms, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University
大阪大学大学院文学研究科文化形態論専攻哲学哲学史/大阪大学大学院文学研究科文化形態論専攻現代思想文化学
オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ブンガク ケンキュウカ ブンカ ケイタイロン センコウ テツガク テツガクシ　オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ブンガク ケンキュウカ ブンカ ケイタイロン センコウ ゲンダイ シソウ ブンカガク
Source Title
Philosophia OSAKA
Volume (Issue)
16
Page
21-37
Date of Issued
2021-03
Language
English
Handle URL
https://hdl.handle.net/11094/78341
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18910/78341
PISSN
1880862X
NCID
AA12121507
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open access
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紀要論文 Departmental Bulletin Paper
Philosophia OSAKA / No.16