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role in Ryle’s philosophy of mind

  • Plutarch
    In Western philosophy: Ordinary-language philosophy

    …what he called a “category mistake.” The mistake is to interpret the term mind as though it were analogous to the term body and thus to assume that both terms denote entities, one visible (body) and the other invisible (mind). His diagnosis of this error involved an elaborate description…

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