In our luminary-fascination society, the book deal is an accouterment to instant or durable celebrity, so reflexive a part of fame that when people see a new name in the news they just know a book is sure to pop up.
Any relation worthy of the name '(proper) part-of' must be reflexive (everything is part of itself), transitive (if x is a part of y and z a part of x, z is a part of y) and antisymmetrical (if x is part of y and y part of x, x is identical to y) (see the article on Mereology, sect. 2 and 3).
Only after processing it for a few hours, and reading countless experiences of women who've been in similar situations, did I realize that my own reflexive dismissal is part of the problem.
Social scientists and natural scientists seeking to engage must thus work together to actively produce reflexive moments as part of the ethical equipment we invent.
This report will be part reflexive ethnography as we document the way the researcher changed as a result of engaging this research [ 11].
Over the years, it's become a reflexive precaution on my part not to risk spooking exposed neighbors by flooding my living room with light, although the only activity I ever seem to catch them at is watching TV.
It was left to a couple of female writers to point out that, at bottom, this story was the result not of dumb yobbery, nor of the failure of BBC processes, but of a horribly reflexive misogyny on the part of Brand and Ross.
But I couldn't help feeling that something precious — our old faith in a doctor's calling, perhaps, or in a healing that is more than a financial transaction or a reflexive fixing of broken parts — had been lost.
"Poetry or truth?" Sherlock asks at one point, a question that almost seems self-reflexive on the writers' part; Moffat, especially, can opt for the former at the expense of the latter.
