Category mistakes: A barrier to effective environmental management.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.05.029
Abstract: How entities, the things that exist, are defined and categorised affects all aspects of environmental management including technical descriptions, quantitative analyses, participatory processes, planning, and decisions. Consequently, ambiguous definitions and wrongly assigning entities to categories,… read more here.
Keywords: management category; barrier effective; category mistakes; management ... See more keywords
Ryle, the Double Counting Problem, and the Logical Form of Category Mistakes
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DOI: 10.1353/hph.2018.0026
Abstract: abstract:Gilbert Ryle is most famous for accusing the Cartesian dualist of committing a category mistake. Yet the nature of this accusation and the idea of a category mistake more generally remains woefully misunderstood. The aim… read more here.
Keywords: category; category mistakes; double counting; counting problem ... See more keywords