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Grelling's Paradox


Grelling's paradox, also known as the Grelling-Nelson paradox or heterological paradox, is a semantic paradox that arises by defining "heterological" to mean "a word which does not describe itself." The word "heterological" is therefore heterological iff it is not.


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Russell's Antinomy

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References

Curry, H. B. Foundations of Mathematical Logic. New York: Dover, p. 6, 1977.Erickson, G. W. and Fossa, J. A. Dictionary of Paradox. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, pp. 83-84, 1998.Grelling, K. and Nelson, L. "Bemerkungen zu den Paradoxien von Russell und Burali-Forti." Abhandlungen der Fries'schen Schule (Neue Serie) 2, 300-334, 1907/1908.Hofstadter, D. R. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. New York: Vintage Books, pp. 20-21, 1989.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Grelling's Paradox." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/GrellingsParadox.html

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