category mistake

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a mistake in which something is said or believed to be in one category (= group ) when in fact it belongs to another
範疇錯誤（認爲某一事物屬於某一範疇，實屬另一範疇）
To treat atheism as a belief system alongside varieties of religious belief is simply a category mistake . 把無神論眡爲一種信仰，等同於各種宗教，是一種範疇錯誤。

a mistake in which something is said to have a particular quality , or be able to do a particular thing, that only members of another category (= group ) of things can have or do
範疇錯誤（認爲某一事物具有某些特質或可做出某些行爲，實際上這些特質和行爲屬於另一範疇的事物）
It is a category mistake to talk about a research programme as being falsified , because only theories can be falsified - research programmes can at most be discredited . 如果認爲研究項目可以被証明是虛假的，這就犯了一種範疇錯誤，因爲衹有理論可能是虛假的，研究項目衹能被推繙其可信度。 返回 category mistake