Full Idea
Metaphors must have literal meanings. …Since many metaphors involving category mistakes manage to achieve their metaphorical purpose, they must also have literal meanings, so category mistakes must be (literally) meaningful.
Gist of Idea
Category mistakes are meaningful, because metaphors are meaningful category mistakes
Source
Ofra Magidor (Category Mistakes [2013], 3.5)
Book Reference
Magidor,Ofra: 'Category Mistakes' [OUP 2013], p.67
A Reaction
Hm. 'This guy is so weird that to meet him is to encounter a circular square'.