Category mistakes

Category mistakes are sentences such as 'Green ideas sleep furiously' or 'Saturday is in bed'. They strike us as highly infelicitous but it is hard to explain precisely why this is so. Ofra Magidor explores four approaches to category mistakes in philosophy of language and lingui...

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Main Author: Magidor, Ofra
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2013, 2013
Series:Oxford philosophical monographs / Oxford philosophical monographs
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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