semantic error

NOUN
  1. an error in logic or arithmetic that must be detected at run time
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How To Use semantic error In A Sentence

  • In response to Wilkinson’s (I thought unexceptionable) assertion that people value things other than — and often more highly than — happiness, DeLong objected, not just that Will had said something substantively wrong, but made some kind of semantic error, asserting a tautological falsehood (what we used to call a “falsism” in debate): Better Brad DeLong Dissatisfied than a Pig Satisfied
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