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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