reflexiveness
- noun
- /rɪˈflɛksɪvnəs/
- Specialized
:
reflexividad
- The concept of reflexiveness in mathematics indicates that if a relation holds for an element, it must also hold for that same element.
- self-reflexiveness
Examples
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Understanding reflexiveness helps clarify how properties in logic ensure that each element is connected to itself.
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There is a sort of infinite reflexiveness within the the living being that allows it to adapt itself to what is over here in itself, right.
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My charge for ladies to absorb more effectively, i.e., develop more insight and reflexiveness, is twofold.
Blog text (4) -
Self-reflexiveness characterizes both the seen and the seer; the historian of modernism self-consciously observes the critical self-consciousness of others.
Academic text (1994) -
As I see it, Mantel's fatal flaw is not a dubious attachment to old-fashioned identity politics, but rather a failure to fully appreciate the self-reflexiveness of the text she reviews, leading her to misdirect her criticism.
Academic text (2008) -
But what the self-reflexiveness of Udolpho and Caleb Williams also shows is that such narratives of oppression are always being resisted, always in conflict with another story seeking to be heard, always in continued, ever-contested dialogue.
Academic text (2007) -
In logic, reflexiveness means that every element relates to itself, such as in the case of the relation where a number is always equal to itself.
Synonyms
A relation that links every item to itself
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reflexiveness comes from Latin parts re- 'back' and flect 'bend', the same idea you see in words like flex 'to bend' and reflect 'to bend back'. So, in logic, reflexiveness means the relation 'bends back' to the same element, that is, every item is related to itself.
