Sentence examples for reflexive thought from inspiring English sources

It's a "narcissistic reflexive thought process: I define myself as feminist and so everything I do is a feminist act".

The reflexive thought is that CBS would not dare pre-empt Woods if he was in a position to win.

By engaging in reflexive thought, we can align our mental propositions with the ideal ones.

All humanity thinks directly, or in these ordinary ways, but some persons engage in reflexive thought, or about the mind itself and its contents.

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.

While "Can't we all just get along?" is my immediate, reflexive thought in the face of such firestorms, I realize that it's just not that simple -- and that, as Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams recently wrote, The Mommy Wars are real.

I call these direct and not reflexive thoughts; but when the young man feels something new and at the same time perceives that he has not felt the same thing before, I call this second perception a reflection, and I relate it only to the understanding, insofar as it is so attached to sensation that the two cannot be distinguished".

The PCI assesses reflexive thoughts about physical concerns and their negative consequences (Table  2).

Even the language of self-reflexive thought and belief (so-called 'meta-cognition') figures in some accounts of behavioral difficulties and interventions (Wells 2000).

He treats Mary's new knowledge as a particular case of demonstrative belief (and he proposes an account of Mary's new beliefs after release in terms of his theory of token-reflexive thoughts).

How does this reflexive thinking work?