Perhaps the two most familiar kinds of reflection we know are the reflection of light in mirrors (see Factasia Through the Looking Glass) and reflection as inward thought process (from which Philosophy results).
Factasia deals in both these senses of reflection and many more technical ones.
Looking outside Factasia, see Damjan Bojadziev's page on Mirrors.
Reflection runs through Factasia like lettering through a stick of rock. Reflection is powerful but dangerous, particularly in logic where it can push you over the edge into incoherence (as illustrated by "Russell's Paradox"). Factasia uses magic to solve hard problems (magic is probably what Dennett would call a skyhook). Many of Factasia's recipes for magic include a bit of reflection. |
Not all reflection works. If you want to make the most of reflexion then you have to get an understanding of how it can fail so you can spot it before it happens. Here we identify two ways it can fail and point you to some effective middle ground between them. | ||
Examples of vacuous reflection include:
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Self Reference |
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Recursion |
Combinatory Logic, Functional Programming |
Self Application |
Combinatory Logic, Functional Programming |