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Grelling-Nelson paradox
Proper noun
Japanese Meaning
自己参照的な意味論上の逆説。つまり、「オートロジカル」が「自己記述的」、「ヘテロロジカル」が「自己記述的でない」と仮定すると、「ヘテロロジカル」という語自体はどちらにも適切に分類できなくなるという論理的矛盾を示す概念。
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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.
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Grelling-Nelson paradox
In his lecture, he used the Grelling-Nelson paradox to illustrate how language can entangle itself in self-referential contradictions.
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In his lecture, he used the Grelling-Nelson paradox to illustrate how language can entangle itself in self-referential contradictions.
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