"Young Woman With a Water Pitcher" announces the birth of the modern, self-reflexive mind.
DeVos's resort to canned answers — the fruits of a quick Google search on the part of an aide, perhaps, or the expression of a reflexive, rote tendency of mind — might not earn her good grades in a high-school social-studies class.
Triangulation of data sources and evaluators to deepen our understanding of the question; Reflexive process and evaluation minded all along the data interpretation phase; Integration of qualitative and quantitative data allowing us to directly question people concerned on other aspects potentially influencing results.
All humanity thinks directly, or in these ordinary ways, but some persons engage in reflexive thought, or about the mind itself and its contents.
The group dynamics were clearly key and feeling "safe enough" to change your mind was important (reflexive statement).
Thereafter, the mind becomes a stern reflexive judge.
Sucking it down is a reflex, our first reflexive gratification.
She knows that the message is meant for her ears; Silvia, affectionately protective of her young son, treats her daughter with a reflexive, mocking harshness that invades Velvet's mind like some choking weed: "You're no good, said some words in my head.
In reflexive thought, there is a return of the mind onto itself, or an attending to the contents of the mind; such reflexive thoughts are more attentive perceptions of the divine ideas, and these thoughts are contemplations of the eternal truths.
They just come, unbidden, wordlessly and shockingly, usually lasting just a second or two, sometimes prompting a reflexive laugh or startled exhalation of breath, my mind suddenly empty of culturally-ingrained concepts that for most of the time keep it tightly constricted.
Informational infrastructure is now as sprawling as the walls that hold its servers, and the adaptive mind has reconditioned itself as a reflexive data sieve that instinctively favors either the most popular, or most recent, source of information; frequently, neither of which is the purest or most reliable.
