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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Category mistakes, such as 'the red number is divisible by three,' often cause a sense of oddness.
  • Existing philosophical accounts attribute this oddness to unique defects or phenomenology associated with category mistakes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the oddness of category mistakes using experimental psycholinguistics.
  • To examine whether event-related brain potentials (ERPs) can shed light on the debate surrounding category mistakes.

Main Methods:

  • Review of experimental results from psycholinguistic studies.
  • Analysis of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) data.

Main Results:

  • Experimental results challenge the uniqueness claims made by existing philosophical accounts of category mistakes.
  • The application of ERPs to test these philosophical accounts presents a methodological dilemma.

Conclusions:

  • Advocates of unique accounts of category mistakes face a dilemma regarding the interpretation of ERP data.
  • The study suggests that current experimental techniques may not be suitable for testing existing philosophical theories of category mistakes as hoped.