One possibility is to understand theoretical reflection as reasoning about questions of explanation and prediction.
Thus, to use the reflected image to find the food bowl, the pigs had to remember what they saw in the mirror, as well as understand the reflection and their movements in relationship to it.
So, for example, if the word "values" turns up in a political conversation, it will be understood without reflection to refer to a specific set of stances — pro-family, pro-American, pro-merit, pro-religion, anti-special-interests, anti-quotas, anti-abortion, anti-gay-marriage, anti-assisted-suicide.
The sensitive behavior on the surface amplitude can be understood by reflection and nonlinear dissipation of Alfvén waves (SI06).
However, in all relevant respects he understands this reflection as just another perceptual sense, an "internal sense" (Essay II.1.4) that just happens to be directed inwards toward the workings of our minds rather than outwards toward the world around us (Ayers, 1991 p. 49).
In the spirit of G. E. Moore, we might understand the evaluative reflection relevant to deliberation in consequentialist terms, as reflection about a non-natural property of goodness that is instantiated by states of the world; but this is not a very popular approach today.
They can be alternatively understood as reflections of the social, economic and political contexts in which they occur.
The Seurat of "Sunday" would surely understand Stew's reflections on the trouble this makes for the creatively obsessed.
For example, Beth felt positive about her students' ability to make connections between the science and mathematics after she had her students measure the angle of reflection to understand how light behaves, stating, "I think [the angle of reflection laboratory] went really well and a lot of them [students] made the connection, 'Oh, we're doing angles in math class,' so that was really good".
