Paradox
The word autological itself may or may not be an autological word. It demonstrates an infinite regress: any word is autological if its appearance expresses its own meaning, so autological is autological if autological expresses the property of a word expressing its own meaning. Whether the word 'heterological' is itself heterological is an even more problematic paradox.
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