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Kurt Grelling was a German philosopher and logician known for his work in the fields of philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics. He is particularly recognized for his contributions to discussions around self-reference and paradoxes, including the famous Grelling-Nelson paradox concerning the set of all adjectives that are not self-descriptive. In this context, adjectives like "long" or "short" can be self-descriptive (e.g.

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