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Category Mistakes (Paperback)
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Category Mistakes (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Philosophical Monographs
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Category mistakes are sentences such as 'Green ideas sleep
furiously', 'Saturday is in bed', and 'The theory of relativity is
eating breakfast'. Such sentences strike most speakers as highly
infelicitous but it is a challenge to explain precisely why they
are so. Ofra Magidor addresses this challenge, while providing a
comprehensive discussion of the various treatments of category
mistakes in both philosophy of language and linguistics. The
phenomenon of category mistakes is particularly interesting to both
these fields because a plausible case can be (and has been) made
for explaining it in terms of syntax, semantics, and
pragmatics-making it a fruitful case for exploring the relations
between and nature of these three fundamental realms of language.
Category Mistakes follows this division. After an introduction
which explains the aims and motivations for the project and
provides a brief historical survey of the (modern) treatment of
category mistakes in each of philosophy, linguistics, and computer
science, Magidor discusses four approaches in turn: first, the
syntactic approach, which maintains that category mistakes are
syntactically ill-formed; then two semantic approaches, though ones
that appeal to different semantic facets: the meaninglessness view,
which maintains that category mistakes are meaningless, and the MBT
view, according to which category mistakes are meaningful but
truth-valueless; and finally the pragmatic approach, according to
which category mistakes are syntactically well-formed, meaningful,
truth-valued but nevertheless pragmatically inappropriate. Magidor
argues that the first three approaches ought to be rejected, and in
the final chapter addresses the main challenge by developing and
defending a particular version of the pragmatic approach: a
presuppositional account of category mistakes.
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