self-reference
Noun
Meaning
self-reference (usually uncountable, plural self-references)
Act or process of referring to itself or oneself.
Synonyms
Examples
You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.
Also, while I agree the syntax isn't ideal, scoping issues make it hard to eliminate the self-reference for comprehension-style filtering.
Some commentators define modernism as a mode of thinking—one or more philosophically defined characteristics, like self-consciousness or self-reference, that run across all the novelties in the arts and the disciplines.
In both cases though, it tends to refer to personal habits or traits that the user considers to be a negative feature of the subject, even when it is a self-reference.
The Levinthal paradox and kinetics Levinthal's paradox is a thought experiment, also constituting a self-reference in the theory of protein folding.
Through illustration and analysis, the book discusses how self-reference and formal rules allow systems to acquire meaning despite being made of "meaningless" elements.