Full Idea
The meaninglessness view does seem to offer a simple and compelling explanation for the fact that category mistakes are highly infelicitous.
Gist of Idea
A good explanation of why category mistakes sound wrong is that they are meaningless
Source
Ofra Magidor (Category Mistakes [2013], 3.6)
Book Reference
Magidor,Ofra: 'Category Mistakes' [OUP 2013], p.75
A Reaction
However, I take there to be quite a large gulf between why meaningless sentences like 'squares turn happiness into incommensurability', which I would call 'category blunders', and subtle category mistakes, which are meaningful.