Talk:Autological word

There's no article for "autonym (word)" which is a synonym for "homologue". Can someone enter a request to have "autonym (word)" redirect to the "homologue (word)" page? I didn't see a link anywhere to have words redirected. Perhaps only admins can effect this change? Staplovich (talk) 17:54, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is actually no need for such an article, because there is no synonymy between "autonym" and "homologue"/"autological". The logical term "autonym" as an attribute to words or symbols (not to be confused with autonym vs. heteronym as a self-given name) was introduced to logic by Rudolf Carnap and refers to just any word not used for representing its common conceptual denotate, but adduced for representing itself, normally within a metalinguistic statement (e.g. "five is a numeral" vs. "five is a number"). By consequence, metalinguistic statements about autological words necessarily have to adduce them as autonyms ("short" is short), but the same is true for metalinguistic statements about heterological words, too ("banana" is/is not a banana). Carnap's term refers to a mode of performance, not to a conceptual self-inclusive relation between denotate and material sign. --92.72.164.91 (talk) 08:26, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, Banana is NOT a Banana? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Komkast22 (talk • contribs) 23:33, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ehm, maybe in the sense that the word "banana" is not itself a banana? Is that the idea? Rodaen (talk) 08:52, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]