Autological/Heterological

Another reason Frank Ramsey kicks your butt:

“Let us call adjectives whose meanings are predicates of them, like ‘short’, AUTOLOGICAL; others HETEROLOGICAL.”—‘Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society,’ F. P. Ramsey, XXV. page 358; 1926

So, 'polysyllabic' is autological since it has more than one syllable, and hence refers to itself. Likewise, 'monosyllabic' is heterological since it also has more than one syllable and does not describe itself. The question becomes whether 'autological' is autological, and 'heterological' is heterological. The first answer is whatever you want it to be and the second answer does not exist! Russell's theory of types or Tarski's definition of truth can show you why these questions are not well-formed.

I was just thinking of compiling a list of fun autological words...