This latter set of words is usually called heterological, perhaps because heterological is polysyllabic. From Wordnik.com. [Euclid’s Window] Reference
Grelling-Nelson paradox: Is the word "heterological", meaning "not applicable to itself," a heterological word?. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Now the word ˜heterological™ itself is autological or heterological. From Wordnik.com. [Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic] Reference
Now for the riddle: Is ˜heterological™ heterological or autological?. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemic Paradoxes] Reference
But if the word is heterological, the designated concept does not apply, so. From Wordnik.com. [Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic] Reference
If ˜heterological™ is heterological, then since it describes itself, it is autological. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemic Paradoxes] Reference
Kurt Grelling's paradox, for instance, opens with a distinction between autological and heterological words. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemic Paradoxes] Reference
In other words, “Is ˜heterological™ heterological?” is ill formed (and so meaningless on syntactic grounds). From Wordnik.com. [Epistemic Paradoxes] Reference
The common solution to this puzzle is that ˜heterological™, as defined by Grelling, is not a genuine predicate (Thomson 1962). From Wordnik.com. [Epistemic Paradoxes] Reference
Both contradictions can be presented as sequences of equivalences, and both sequences share the same structure, as seen below (where "het" abbreviates "heterological"). From Wordnik.com. [Self-Reference] Reference
To each word there corresponds a concept, that the very word designates, and which applies to it or does not apply; in the first case, we call the word autological, else heterological. From Wordnik.com. [Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic] Reference
It should be stressed that Weyl's attitude towards Grelling's antinomy is utterly negative: he considers it pure Scholasticism (Weyl 1918, section 1): there is no way, according to him, of assigning a meaning to ˜heterological™ and one should ultimately resolve these problems by appealing to philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic] Reference
˜heterological™, declarative sentences that apply the word fail to express a proposition. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemic Paradoxes] Reference
Marcus Singer. autological: Elliott Sober. (and Carolina Sartorio -- is this a borderline case?) heterological: Claudia Card. (slang -- and could be autological, depending on mood) sentence (imperative): Lester Hunt and Dennis Stampe. (borderline cases -- Haskell Fain and Alan Sidelle). From Wordnik.com. [fragments of consciousness] Reference
But here’s the catch: is heterological a heterological word?. From Wordnik.com. [Euclid’s Window] Reference
And the heterological philosophers: Max Black, Steven Gross, Alva Noe. From Wordnik.com. [fragments of consciousness] Reference
˜heterological™ is not heterological. From Wordnik.com. [Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic] Reference
F) drawn with a very fine camel-hair brush cannibal philosophers: Ronald Dworkin (devour kin) occupation philosophers: David Miller auto - / heterological: Philip Pettit. From Wordnik.com. [fragments of consciousness] Reference
“heterological”. From Wordnik.com. [Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic] Reference
Is "heterological" heterological?. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Reference] Reference
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