reflexivity
Noun
Meaning
(logic and mathematics) a relation such that it holds between an element and itself
the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent
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Fundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices can influence underlying values.
A coproduction between Italy and France, Contempt became known as a pinnacle in cinematic modernism with its profound reflexivity.
Defining equality within a theory If a theory has a binary formula A(x,y) which satisfies reflexivity and Leibniz's law, the theory is said to have equality, or to be a theory with equality.
If there continues to be little or no appetite for internal critique and public reflexivity then the same kinds of ‘solutions’ will be tried again and again, despite their now well-documented flaws and limitations.
For a comparison of Adorno's and Bourdieu's rather divergent conceptions of reflexivity, see: Karakayali, Nedim.
Here the order relation on the elements of A is inherited from P; for this reason, reflexivity and transitivity need not be required explicitly.