Ryle's own category mistakes in 'The Concept of Mind' are explicable as violations of sortal presuppositions without positing ambiguity in the verbs involved, showing the inference from absurdity to ambiguity is invalid.
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The Concept of Mind(Ryle's major work being discussed)
Ryle's famous 1949 book that challenges the idea that the mind and body are two separate things, arguing instead that mental activities are just ways we behave or talk about behavior.
category mistake(Aristotle's account of the fallacy of form of expression)
An error in which a word or concept is assigned to the wrong ontological or grammatical category, producing false metaphysical conclusions