单词 | autological |
释义 | autologicaladj. rare. 1. Of, relating to, or characterized by autology or self-knowledge. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > self-knowledge > [adjective] self-known1596 self-knowing1601 autologicala1748 a1748 I. Watts in P. Doddridge Diary & Corr. (1829) II. iii. 480 I do not think so universal a contempt should be poured on the autological part of the old systems of Logic as some have done; human nature is ever ready to turn to extremes. I wish there were a good system of autology. 1905 E. R. Moras Autology 2 To write a preface here to the second edition of Autology would not be rational or autological. 2. Of a word, esp. an adjective: having or representing the property it denotes. Opposed to heterological adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of language > meaning > [adjective] > autological autological1926 homological1940 1926 F. P. Ramsey in Proc. London Math. Soc. 25 358 Let us call adjectives whose meanings are predicates of them, like ‘short’, autological; others heterological. 1947 H. Reichenbach Elem. Symbolic Logic (1948) vi. 220 Let us comprise as autological all properties whose names have the property they denote. 1952 R. L. Wilder Introd. Found. Math. iii. 75 Is the adjective ‘heterological’ either autological or heterological? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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