Usually means: Misattributing properties to inappropriate categories.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. category mistake: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. category mistake: Collins English Dictionary
  3. category mistake: Wiktionary
  4. category mistake: Dictionary.com
  5. Category mistake: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. category mistake: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. category mistake: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (category mistake)

noun:  A semantic or ontological error by which a property (or category) is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property.

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