Talk:Blardy

For a November 2004 deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Blardy

This is standard stuff for any serious first year logic course, and may be based on a particular presenter's notes or on an assignment. AFAIK blardy is not a standard term, but the fascinating thing is I don't know any standard term. Heterologous has been used for antiblardy, and autologous for blardy (by different lecturers in different universities, can't remember which). But don't get excited about the existence of an article on autologous, it's not the same term!

This content should be preserved, and deserves its own article IMO. If we can find a citable authority who uses blardy in this fashion, then adding a citation will make the article a keeper. Otherwise, if we can find an authority who uses a different term for the same concept, a rename is in order. Failing both of these... cross that bridge... Andrewa 19:15, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Aha! The terms are autological and heterological. Andrewa 19:45, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure I've read of this, with the immediately understandable terms autological and heterological (or very similar), in an early work by Martin Gardner. If it wasn't something by Gardner, then it could well have been some other Pelican book of maths/logic conundrums published by the early seventies. -- Hoary 02:55, 2005 Apr 25 (UTC)

Merge?

This article is largely a restatement of Grelling-Nelson paradox, using different vocabulary. Any objections to merging this one to that one? GTBacchus 03:05, 12 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion at Vfd seemed more inclined to merging than merely keeping as is. Oh, and Google records zero cases of blardy being used in this way when you exclude copies of this very article. Nor any for jeed. GTBacchus 03:43, 12 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, merge. "Blardy" is merely a little-used and perhaps whimsical synonym for autological, which is used in Grelling-Nelson paradox and which gets a lot more than zero hits on Google even after subtraction of WP and its derivatives. -- Hoary 03:49, July 12, 2005 (UTC)