Autological word
The term autology ( altgr. αὐτός cars, auto ' and -logy ) has different meanings in the philosophy of language.
Autology described earlier, as to its own person speech (especially the vain, excessive talking to a person of itself) or a self-description (for example, in an autobiography ).
Since the 17th century autology can fachsprachlich my study of the ego, the self, or of man ( anthropology ) - in contrast to the observation of other objects.
Since the 19th century there is a distinction between autology and heterology within the meaning of literal versus transmitted speech.
In more recent literature can autology my also various flavors of self-reference or self-referentiality.
- Such a self-reference in the Grelling -Nelson antinomy occurs, for example.
- Also homologous linguistic expressions are car logia. A homologous expression describes a property that he owns, for example, the word itself achtzehnbuchstabig 18 letters on.
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