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self-ˈreference
[self- 3 a.]
Reference to oneself or itself; the direction of one's attention at oneself, esp. in forming a comparative assessment of one's characteristics or experience; spec. in Philos., the characteristic or quality of referring to itself contained in certain paradoxes, propositions, or statements.
1910Whitehead & Russell Principia Math. I. ii. 64 In all the above contradictions..there is a common characteristic, which we may describe as self-reference or reflexiveness. 1943Mind LII. 20 Man is a microcosm of Natura, and his self-reference involves him therefore only in partial impotence. 1952Psychol. Abstr. XXVI. 31/2 (title) The use of a new experimental autokinetic situation in the evaluation of self reference. 1960E. H. Gombrich Art & Illusion vii. 239 The perplexing effect of this self-reference is very similar to the paradoxes beloved of philosophers. 1966G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising viii. 81 Only in a few stereotyped contexts..is third person address and self-reference still used. 1978M. Hesse in Hookway & Pettit Action & Interpretation 7 Self-reference of social theorising as part of its own subject matter. 1981Sci. Amer. Apr. 6/2 One has only to watch the Muppets or Monty Python on television to see dense and intricate webs of self-reference.
Also self-ˈreferent, -refeˈrential (-ially adv.) adjs.; self-reˈferring.
1943Mind LII. 20 Man's power over..himself as he appears in the self-referent perspective. 1946Mind LV. 65 If a theory is included in its own subject-matter, we say that it is a self-referential theory. Ibid. 67 Complete doubt of everything led to a self-referentially inconsistent view and so had to be abandoned. 1958A. Pap Semantics & Necessary Truth ix. 263 The kind of self-referential proposition forbidden by the theory of types. 1969Mind LXXVIII. 9 A partly self-referring sentence, such as art. 88 of the Danish constitution. 1979Sci. Amer. Nov. 29/3 These irreducible questions tend, however, to be rather artificial and self-referent. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Sept. 957/2 The self-referential and profoundly paradoxical late novels. |