heterological

Example Sentences

• "The words ultrashort and onomatopoeia are heterological: ultrashort might be called short but is not an ultrashort word, and onomatopoeia is not an onomatopoeic word."
• "A paradox arises when we ask, "Is the word 'heterological' heterological." If it is, it is not. If it is not, it is."
• "A further instance of the uncertainty of Prof. Bergmann's views on the subject of negation, is the distinction (considered by him as at least supposable) between " nicht-richtig " and "unrichtig" (§21,5.). This is done, of course, in order to put a " heterological " meaning into his Axiom of Excluded Middle,"
• "It is the dream of a purely heterological thought at its source. A pure thought of pure difference."
• "But a process philosophy, in order to support a purely heterological thought, has to be capable of doing without subjects steering the process or being steered by it, without substantive names designating 'blocks' in motion, and without points of origin or destination invigilating over a predictable trajectory."
• "The normally situated non-transplanted gonads have the best chance of being able to absorb these substances, for which reason heterological (perhaps also homological) gonads, transplanted on normal organisms, can not get enough of these substances and therefore perish."