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2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / a. Category mistakes

21561	'The number one is bald' or 'the number one is fond of cream cheese' are meaningless [Russell]
	Full Idea: 'The number one is bald' or 'the number one is fond of cream cheese' are, I maintain, not merely silly remarks, but totally devoid of meaning.
	From: Bertrand Russell (Substitutional Classes and Relations [1906], p.166)
	A reaction: He connects this to paradoxes in set theory, such as the assertion that 'the class of human beings is a human being' (which is the fallacy of composition).