单词 | self-reflexive |
释义 | self-reflexiveadj. 1. Characterized by or given to self-reflection; introspective; = self-reflective adj. Also: (of the mind, soul, etc.) that contemplates itself. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > consciousness > contemplation of self > [adjective] self-reflexivea1651 self-reflective1670 introverted1782 introspective1819 subjective1836 introvertive1864 introversive1884 a1651 N. Culverwell Worth of Souls in Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) 201 The workings of the soul are..Self-reflexive and independent upon the body... The soul shall sit judge upon its own actions;..it shall become Speculum suiipsius, view its own force. 1656 W. Troughton Myst. Marriage Song 143 These self-reflexive acts are those noble operations which are peculiar to a rational immortal soule, and which the sensitive creatures cannot reach unto. 1724 J. Boyse Disc. on Four Last Things xiii. 298 When God shall awaken their self-reflexive Power, Conscience will speak. 1879 T. Harper tr. St. Thomas Aquinas in Metaphysics of School I. iii. iii. 378 The intellect reflects upon its own act... It is because the intellect is self-reflexive, that it cognizes..Truth. a1983 P. de Man Rhetoric of Romanticism (1984) 101 Rousseau's work is characterized in part by an introspective self-reflexive mode which uses literary models of Augustinian and pietistic origin. 2000 Mod. Philol. 98 2 Book reviews..help them [sc. authors] to be more self-reflexive about their goals and methods. 2. That reflects back on or refers to itself; esp. (of a literary or other creative work) that consciously calls attention to itself or its own processes or production; self-referential. Cf. reflexive adj. 2d. ΚΠ 1928 Mind 37 340 The theory then applies to itself and is self-reflexive. 1957 Ess. in Crit. 7 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. 1980 San Francisco Bay Guardian 16 Oct. 17/3 We all know about Vladimir Nabokov and self-reflexive writing. 2016 Australian (Nexis) 9 Mar. 17 That strange self-reflexive genre: a TV show about the making of a TV show. Derivatives self-reˈflexiveness n. the quality or condition of being self-reflexive. ΚΠ 1893 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 22 379 The self-reflexiveness of apprehension, in the manufacture of phenomena, was named by Kant ‘the transcendental synthesis of imagination’. 1933 A. Korzybski Sci. & 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. 2010 Jrnl. Amer. Stud. 44 663 This final sense of narcissism also relates to the state of the postmodern novel as affect-less and self-regarding in its self-reflexiveness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1651 |
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