Reflexive

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Something reflexive refers to itself. Specific uses include:

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Mathematics and Computer Science

Social Sciences

  • reflexivity (social theory). Reflexivity occurs in a social system when self-analysis by an agent, or the analysis of the social system by theorists and the resultant development or modification of theory and beliefs, itself affects and constitutively changes the self or the system being examined. Analogous to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in the physical sciences, reflexivity is a serious methodological issue in the social sciences and raises serious questions regarding the possibility and nature of a social science.
  • reflexive learning (socio-economics), learning that occurs automatically in response to altered circumstances.

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