A conversation between my two year old neice and her mother (my sister).
"Let me check your temperature, Nethra."
Nethra waits patiently as my sister sticks the thermometer into her mouth. After the thermometer is pulled out Nethra makes a motion as though she was eating the thermometer.
"No, Nethra! You can't eat temperature. It's not like food. You have to read it."
A harmless category error (ascribing a property to something that cannot have that property). Adults make category errors too - claiming Creationism as Science, for instance; a bit more subtle but certainly not as harmless as the ones by kids.
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