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Grelling-Nelson paradox

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Etymology

Formulated in 1908 by Kurt Grelling and Leonard Nelson.

Definitions

  1. A semantic paradox of self-reference, where, supposing that "autological" means…

    A semantic paradox of self-reference, where, supposing that "autological" means "self-describing" and "heterological" means "not self-describing", then "heterological" itself cannot be meaningfully classified as either of the two.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Grelling-Nelson paradox. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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