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• “Grelling-Nelson paradox: Is the word "heterological", meaning "not applicable to itself," a heterological word?”

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• “The sources were abundant ” letters, court records, pamphlets, memoirs ” and since Certeau's original French edition was part of a series of primary documents, he could prepare a book with different voices and thereby capture a "heterological" perspective: his own from the present, and those from the past, "each of [the] halves say [ing] what is missing from the other.”

  The Quest of Michel de Certeau

• “Both contradictions can be presented as sequences of equivalences, and both sequences share the same structure, as seen below (where "het" abbreviates "heterological"):”

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• “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.”

  Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic

• “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.”

  Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic

• “Now the word ˜heterological™ itself is autological or heterological.”

  Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic

• “But if the word is heterological, the designated concept does not apply, so”

  Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic

• “In other words, “Is ˜heterological™ heterological?” is ill formed (and so meaningless on syntactic grounds).”

  Epistemic Paradoxes

• “The common solution to this puzzle is that ˜heterological™, as defined by Grelling, is not a genuine predicate (Thomson 1962).”

  Epistemic Paradoxes

• “Now for the riddle: Is ˜heterological™ heterological or autological?”

  Epistemic Paradoxes

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