category mistake
基本解释
- 范畴错误（认为某一事物属于某一范畴，实属另一范畴）, 范畴错误（认为某一事物具有某些特质或可做出某些行为，实际上这些特质和行为属于另一范畴的事物）。
同根派生
英汉例句
- To treat atheism as a belief system alongside varieties of religious belief is simply a category mistake. 把无神论视为一种信仰，等同于各种宗教，是一种范畴错误。
- 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. 如果认为研究项目可以被证明是虚假的，这就犯了一种范畴错误，因为只有理论可能是虚假的，研究项目只能被推翻其可信度。
noun [ C ]
英英字典
- a mistake in which something is said or believed to be in one category (= group) when in fact it belongs to another