category mistake
基本解释
- 範疇錯誤（認爲某一事物屬於某一範疇，實屬另一範疇）, 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）。
英汉例句
- 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。
- 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。
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