The paradox can be eliminated, without changing the meaning of " heterological " where it was previously well-defined, by modifying the definition of " heterological " slightly to hold all nonautological words except " heterological . " But " nonautological " is subject to the same paradox, for which this evasion is not applicable because the rules of English uniquely determine its meaning from that of " autological . " A similar slight modification to the definition of " autological " ( such as declaring it false of " nonautological " and its synonyms ) might seem to fix that, but the paradox still obtains for synonyms of " autological " and " heterological " such as " selfdescriptive " and " nonselfdescriptive, " whose meanings also would need adjusting, and the consequences of those adjustments would then need to be pursued, and so on.
