Category Mistakes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780199572977
Description: 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 linguistics, and develops and defends an original, presuppositional account.