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Quote by Gilbert Ryle
It is one big mistake and a mistake of a special kind. It is, namely, a category-mistake.
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The speaker calls the error serious and specific. It is not just an ordinary mistake; it is a “category-mistake,” meaning that something has been understood as belonging to the wrong kind or class. The wording emphasizes both the scale of the error and the particular way it goes wrong.
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- Gilbert Ryle, “Descartes’ Myth,” The Concept of Mind (1949), PDF hosted by Purdue University
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