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Subject: Re: Useful words...
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Date: Thu, 22-Dec-83 10:23:23 EST
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  Now pay attention campers, because I'm only going to say this once:

	AUTOLOGICAL		p.a.		 true of self
	HETEROLOGICAL		p.a.		 not true of self


  The two predicate adjectives defined above are usually used in formal
syntax, to describe adjecives. I. e. the adjective "big" is heterological,
because the word "big" is a small word, and so does not truly describe
itself. On this VT131 terminal, the word "luminous" is emitting its own light,
and being thus true of itself, is autological. Got it? Good.

  Now, the interesting situation arises when we wish to use one of these words
to classify the adjective "HETEROLOGICAL" itself. Is it an autological or an
heterological adjective? That is, is "not true of itself" true of itself or 
not? Lets see some replies...

  Once y'all see those replies, you'll know why I put this in net.jokes!!!

			C. Thomas Weinbaum von Waldenthal