SUO: REF: Working Definition Of "Reflection"

[Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@oakland.edu>]

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REF SIG:

"Reflection", as I currently understand and use the term,
appears to involve at least the following sorts of ideas:

An agent, a community, or a system is said to be "reflective"
to the extent that it can accept, acknowledge, generate, manage,
recognize, and reconcile, as such, descriptions of its own conduct.

"Conduct" is a technical term that means
"action or behavior in regard to an object".

"Object", of course, is being used here in the "pragmatic" sense of the word
that encompasses all varieties of "objects and objectives", whether they be
abstract or concrete, existent or inexistent, indifferent or intentional,
and whether they be past, present, or prospective.

I sometimes use the more specific term "critical reflection"
to indicate this particular meaning of the word "reflection".

I would not want to call this a formal definition --
it may need a bit of work before it could be that --
it is more like a survey of the notions that come
to mind, at least one mind, under this topic head.

Let me know what you think of this,
at least, as a working beginning ...

Many Regards,

Jon Awbrey

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