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- noun Act or process of referring to itself or oneself.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In that proof, the expressive power of arithmetic is needed to get self-reference and incompleteness.
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Are you asserting that self-reference must be tautological?
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Beyond portraying the familiar pain of adolescence—Oliver imagines his own death, steeped in bathos, in order to imagine his glorious resurrection—"Submarine" provides a highly original investigation of how kids that age are trapped in the synaptic coils of self-reference.
Surprise: A Newly Exhilarating 'X-Men' Joe Morgenstern 2011
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In that proof, the expressive power of arithmetic is needed to get self-reference and incompleteness.
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[Comment deleted for intentional and promiscuous self-reference.] Ann Elk (Quote)
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The POLITICO self-reference meter is off the charts!
HUFFPOST HILL - Obama Campaign Thinks People Will Randomly Start Liking The President Again Eliot Nelson 2011
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Nothing makes you aware of this faster than when something removes one or all of these passing points of self-reference.
Steve McSwain: Death, Taxes, Ego And Easter All Have Something In Common Steve McSwain 2011
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These are all just ego attachments -- points of self-reference and, too often, self-worth -- and all will one day disappear with death itself.
Steve McSwain: Death, Taxes, Ego And Easter All Have Something In Common Steve McSwain 2011
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Without that belief The Wolfman would be a cowardly parody trying to hide in irony and smart self-reference rather than trying to do right by the classic movie that came before.
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Are you asserting that self-reference must be tautological?
uselessness commented on the word self-reference
See also: This Is Not the Title of This Essay.
You might also be interested in This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself.
January 25, 2008
oroboros commented on the word self-reference
Hey u.! Thanks for the link; doog krow. ;o)
January 25, 2008