Category mistakes

Category mistakes

by Magidor, Ofra

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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.

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  • Full title :Category mistakes / Ofra Magidor.

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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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2013.
  • Edition:1st ed

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  • Description:1 online resource (xi, 171 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780191662843, 0191662844
  • oclc:ocn859159178
  • LC Classification:P240.5
  • Dewey Decimal:415

Table of Contents

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1 The Phenomenon of Category Mistakes""; ""2 Category Mistakes in the Philosophical Literature""; ""3 Category Mistakes in the Linguistics Literature""; ""4 Category Mistakes in Computer Science""; ""5 Conclusion""; ""2 The Syntactic Approach""; ""1 The Syntactic Approach to Category Mistakes""; ""2 Some Unsatisfactory Arguments Against the Syntactic Approach""; ""2.1 The simplicity argument""; ""2.2 The meaningfulness argument""; ""2.3 The argument from universality""; ""3 The Argument from Particularity""

""4 The Argument from Embedding""""5 Interactions with Meanings""; ""6 Interactions with Extra-Linguistic Facts""; ""7 Interactions with Context""; ""3 The Meaninglessness View""; ""1 The Meaninglessness View of Category Mistakes""; ""2 The Argument(s) from Compositionality""; ""2.1 Atomic category mistakes""; ""2.2 Type-theoretic semantics to the rescue?""; ""2.3 Conjunctions and quantifier phrases""; ""3 The Argument from Synonymy""; ""4 The Argument from Propositional Attitude Ascriptions""; ""5 The Argument from Metaphor""; ""6 Arguments in Favour of the Meaninglessness View?""

""6.1 The imagination moti…

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Subjects

Catégories grammaticales Grammar, Comparative and general -- Gra… Kategorienfehler LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar … LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguist… semantics Sémantique

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Magidor, Ofra

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