The more categories that are used, of course, the less room there is for category error.
Cornwell also claims it is a category error to confuse creationism and the "doctrine of creation".
But, applying to dangerous global warming the same diplomatic took-kit used for thousands of other negotiations is to make what is called a "category error".
The category error is to treat climate negotiations like any other in which the outcome sits on a scale of better or worse.
The category error is as obvious as it is bizarre.
To think of breaking a rule was like talking about the time before the Bang or a temperature below absolute zero: a category error, nothing else.
In an evaluative capacity, therefore, "good" and "bad" carry moral weight without committing a category error.
As ever with Dyer, you have to issue a warning about possible category errors.
"There are category problems, and maybe category errors."
We have to face up to this political category error.