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Hofstadter poses the question: Is 'heterological' heterological?

Suppose 'heterological' is heterological, then 'heterological' does not have the property for which it stands. But, the property for which it stands is the property of being heterological, that is, 'heterological' does not have the property of being heterological. However, if 'heterological' is not heterological it has the property for which it stands. But, the property for which it stands is the property of being heterological, that is, 'heterological' is heterological.
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Originally Posted By: Leon Bowden

Suppose 'heterological' is heterological, then 'heterological' does not have the property for which it stands. But, the property for which it stands is the property of being heterological, that is, 'heterological' does not have the property of being heterological. However, if 'heterological' is not heterological it has the property for which it stands. But, the property for which it stands is the property of being heterological, that is, 'heterological' is heterological.


Thus proving Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem.

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Thus proving Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem.

Well, not proof in the mathematical sense, but an illustration of it perhaps.


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Quote:
dit: list of autological words


I can't believe the word word is not on that list!

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>I can't believe the word word is not on that list!

it is, in the list of autological nouns; although, strictly speaking, autological applies to an adjective or other predicate.

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Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
Thus proving Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem.

Well, not proof in the mathematical sense, but an illustration of it perhaps.


Oh you prescriptivist dingalinguists!

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Oh you prescriptivist dingalinguists!

But, I did not prescribe anything. (I didn't even tell you that you were wrong.) You are free to say or type ennyfing you wants to. (I was just suggesting that your proposition was false.)


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dingalinguists Ohmigawd--that is GREAT!

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I don't know what I would choose zmjezhd. The prescription or the suggestion that my proposition would be false.
(if I had any)

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dingalinguists Ohmigawd--that is GREAT!


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