Original Thought

last modified: November 9, 2014

"Oh if there's an original thought out there, I could use it right now." -- BobDylan - Brownsville Girl

This is a very heterological page.

The quote given reinforces that notion!

Grelling's paradox - Some words refer to themselves: the word ‘short’ is short, and the word ‘common’ is common. Other words do not: the word ‘long’ is not long, and the word ‘banana’ is not a banana. Call these latter words ‘heterological’. Then the question arises: is the word ‘heterological’ itself heterological? It is if it is not, and is not if it is. This is one of the family of semantic paradoxes.


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