Heterology

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Heterology is a noun formation for the adjective heterologous (or heterologous ). The underlying Greek word stem hetero can be found in the meaning "different" within different subject areas (see also heterogeneous ). In this context, heterology or heterologous is particularly a medical term.

Medicine and biology

The adjective heterologous (engl .: heterologous ) indicated in Medicine "in form or function non-coincident", in the biological effect, "different species" ( xenogeneic ). For example, if the donor of a sperm donation is not the husband or partner of a stable partnership, the procedure is also known as heterologous insemination .

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logic

Grelling and Nelson built the semantic paradox named after them on the heterological art adjective . A word is heterological if it does not itself have the property described by this word. For example, the adjective “monosyllabic” is heterological because it consists of more than one syllable.

Most of the words are heterologous. The question of whether the word “heterological” is itself heterological cannot be answered without a logical contradiction (for details see Grelling-Nelson Antinomy ).

References and footnotes

  1. on "medical term" cf. Duden Foreign Dictionary , 7th edition, 2001: classified there as “(Med.)”
  2. ^ According to Roche Lexikon Medizin , 4th edition, Urban & Fischer Verlag, Munich 1984/1987/1993/1999
  3. K. Grelling and L. Nelson: Comments on the Paradoxes by Russell and Burali-Forti. In: Abhandlungen der Fries'schen Schule II, Göttingen 1908, pp. 301–334.