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, 1976-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford Scholarship Online, 2013.
Series:	Oxford philosophical monographs.
Subjects:	Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammatical categories. Catégories grammaticales. Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammatical categories Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (176 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	129980554X 9781299805545 9780191758942 0191758949