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1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe li. 462 Refined and purified by being as it were new cast in the modells of our rationall or reflexe conceipts.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. iii. §9 The Soul..can produce the same effects by reflex acts of the understanding.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 24 Which I call the reflex act of the Soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions.

1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. iii. 120 I conceive that then thought is said to be..reflex, when the same act of thought terminates upon itself, or is its own object.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 343 There is a reflex act whereby the mind turns inward upon herself to observe what ideas arise in her view.

1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (1852) 312 The delightful sensations of moral approbation which rise up on the reflex contemplation of such affection.

1870 J. H. Newman Ess. Gram. Assent ii. vi. 158 An act of consciousness..is a reflex act with its own object, viz. the act of knowledge itself.

1899 Mind Apr. 207 If Arbuckle distinguished his Conscience..from the appreciation of the Beautiful in Art, it would become a further reflex act.

1955 Philos. Q. 5 236 Holding that we know our real selves, not in the same way that we know ideas, but still immediately, by reflex act and notionally.

1995 Aristotelian Soc. Suppl. Vol. 69 16 In Shaftesbury, Locke's ‘reflection’ comes more explicitly than in Locke to exploit its literal meaning, and becomes a reflex act of the mind, a flexing back on itself.