Fallacy of Logic

[TelC@t]

Some adjectives describe themselves and there are many of them. For example, 14-charactered describe itself, as do English, short, ambigious and polysyllabic. Let us call these words autological.

There are also lots of adjectives that do not apply to themselves. Among these are long, German, monosyllabic, and 50-lettered. Lets call such adjectives heterological. That is, an adjective A is heterological if and only if A does not describe A.

Is heterological heterological?


EDIT: it is heterological not hererological

[ConcreteSchlyrd]

Re: Fallacy of Logic

Exactly what drugs are you on?

[TelC@t]

The drug is called UB (ultra boredom). Ever since I finished my exams, I got nothing to do so I picked up a few books about philosophy and logic, and in one of the books I came across such a problem. I found it interesting so I posted it on the forum.

Now go back to your corner, photoshop boi

[Dameon Angell]

heterological is heterological, because it does not describe itself, but the word that is heterological.

[arrogance]

You shouldn't be using such big words until you master the little ones first.

[Fatal|ty]

All you people are doing is trying to trap yourelf within your own nonsense you create out of nothingness. goodbye.

[PaulOakenfold]

What if you're a lieing liar? Wouldn't that mean you're a truthful person? But that would mean you're lieing about lying, meaning you ARE a liar, but wait, if you're lying about your lies, that means you're telling the truth. So how can you be a lying liar?

Someone help me here.

[ÆNIMA]

When you first typed "heterological" you spelled it "hererological." Which is it?

Also Telcat, I would advise you not to start any threads relating to logic, your past threads clearly have some foul logic.

And of course, we all know that connotation has nothing to do with denotation.

[Pearl Jam]

Originally posted by Fatal|ty
All you people are doing is trying to trap yourelf within your own nonsense you create out of nothingness. goodbye.

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[Facetious]

Wow, that completely useless paradox really changed my life.

[Bioture]

Logic tells me not to post here.

[za gophar]

yeah, this post it a fallcy in logic

[PaulOakenfold]

Speaking of liars:
If you were trying to find your way to "truth town" and you ran into a fork in the the road. You have no idea which road leads to truth town. One guy comes down from liar town, he can only tell lies, while one guy comes down from truth town he can only tell truth. If you don't know which one is which and of which town either came from, what would you ask them in order to find your way to "truth town" ?

[ÆNIMA]

"What would the other guy say?"

[Louis XV]

Hehe, you said phallus. Oh, wait a second...