category error

English

Noun

category error (plural category errors)

  1. Synonym of category mistake
    • 2022, China Miéville, chapter 1, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
      So, is lambasting the Manifesto for inaccuracy a category error, akin, say, to fact-checking a slogan?
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