Michael Agar wrote:
> "Reflexivity" is one of those terms...  Nice and neat in set theory,  
> a relation R is reflexive in set A  iff for all a in A aRa is true.  
>   
Question is, what is the discrimination power of R?  Does it ever say 
false?   (Unlike, say, Freud's theories or religious dogma), and if so 
does it report `true' and `false' in any pattern that rarely would occur 
by chance?  Are their precise metrics for the features that R draws 
upon, or does the meta-analyst just have that convenience?

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