Meanings
nouncategory error (plural category errors)
plural category errors
- Synonym of category mistake.
So, is lambasting the Manifesto for inaccuracy a category error, akin, say, to fact-checking a slogan?
2022, China Miéville, chapter 1, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLCSynonyms: category mistake
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of category mistake.
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category error. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/category%20error
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“category error.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/category%20error. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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