I recently got into chess and was inspired to create my own chess website! I am having to relearn a bit of how to make websites so that should be Fun. I also feel like there should be a more elegant way to create posts for this blog. Probably utilizing a database for posts would be good? Or a seperate file? -3/22/23

Autological words

Many times in the past I have heard some word and noticed that it could, in some way, be said to describe itself. I never really had a precise way of describing or putting a name to this phenomenon until today when I looked up "words that describe themselves" in google and came across what I was looking for on the wikipedia page for the Grelling–Nelson paradox which mentioned autological words.

For me, when I would think about this over the last couple years the perenial example I would always go back to was synonym. I would say synonym was a synonym of synonym so it describes itself, although actually a synonym of a word has to be a different word so that doesn't really make sense. But then I would also think of antonym which is a real autological word which describes itself because of course it is the antonym of the word synonym.

I found a big list of autological words by Henry Segerman but I believe there are some I've thought of in the past which are not there. I should create a list of them somewhere sometime. He talks about the Grelling-Nelson paradox there as well. Basically its about whether heterological (meaning a word that doesn't describe itself) describes itself which results in a paradox.

Which is good! Because as we all know, paradoxes are contradictions, and contraditions are fun!

Use "" like, he said "that's awful!"

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