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self-reflexive, a. [self- 3 a.] †1. = self-reflective a.
1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. 6 These self-reflexive Acts of Conscience. 2. Characterized by reflexive action on itself; containing a reflection or image of itself.
1933A. Korzybski Science & Sanity xx. 323 All human ‘knowledge’ is structurally circular and self-reflexive, and so depends on some conscious or unconscious theory of knowledge and undefined terms. 1957Essays in Criticism VII. 46 When everything is worked in to comprise part of a highly involute and self-reflexive symbolic pattern, there is just too much of it for poetry; it becomes mainly a complex intellectual parlour game. 1977Dædalus Fall 105 The best way to illustrate the complex and self-reflexive progress of a semiotic enterprise is to consider what semiotics has done and promised to do for the study of the most complex of sign systems, literature. 1980San Francisco Bay Guardian 16–23 Oct. 17/3 We all know about Vladimir Nabokov and self-reflexive writing. So self-reˈflexiveness, the quality or condition of being self-reflexive.
1933A. Korzybski Science & Sanity iv. 58 A word is not the object it represents; and languages exhibit also this peculiar self-reflexiveness, that we can analyse languages by linguistic means. |