The visitor, upon viewing the colleges and library, reportedly inquires, "But where is the University?"
The visitor's mistake is presuming that a University is part of the category "units of physical infrastructure", rather than that of an "institution".
After being pointed out batsmen, bowlers and fielders, the foreigner asks: "who is left to contribute the famous element of team-spirit?
"[7] He goes on to argue that the Cartesian dualism of mind and body rests on a category mistake.
[page needed] Massimo Pigliucci, Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York, argues that the "hard problem of consciousness", as expressed by David Chalmers and others, rests on a category mistake, in that explaining "experience" is being incorrectly treated as different from explaining the underlying biological processes which generate experience.