Literary notes about reflective (AI summary)
The word reflective is employed in literature to convey both intellectual rigor and a thoughtful, deliberate pause. In philosophical writings, it marks the process of arriving at judgments that go beyond instinctive reactions, as illustrated by discussions on aesthetic and cognitive judgment ([1], [2], [3], [4]). In educational and psychological contexts, reflective thought denotes a suspended judgment—an intellectual state of careful inquiry and measured reasoning ([5], [6], [7], [8]). Meanwhile, narrative prose often uses reflective to evoke a mood of introspection and careful consideration in characters, whether highlighting their internal deliberations or their quiet, observant moments ([9], [10], [11], [12]).
- THE EXPOSITION OF THE AESTHETICAL REFLECTIVE JUDGEMENT
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant - But if only the particular be given for which the universal has to be found, the Judgement is merely reflective .
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant - Such a transcendental principle, then, the reflective Judgement can only give as a law from and to itself.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant - In the first case it is based on adequate principles for the determinant Judgement, in the second for the reflective Judgement.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant - The successive portions of the reflective thought grow out of one another and support one another; they do not come and go in a medley.
— from How We Think by John Dewey - Reflective thinking, in short, means judgment suspended during further inquiry; and suspense is likely to be somewhat painful.
— from How We Think by John Dewey - If this meaning is at once accepted, there is no reflective thinking, no genuine judging.
— from How We Think by John Dewey - Pseudo-ideas Ideas are not then genuine ideas unless they are tools in a reflective examination which tends to solve a problem.
— from How We Think by John Dewey - But first and last and all the time he is human, and therefore in his reflective intervals he will always be speculating in “futures.”
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain - The scene was indeed one which might well have charmed a far less reflective mind, than that to which it was presented.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - ‘No, I don’t, Sammy,’ said Mr. Weller, with a reflective visage.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - Having eaten the friendless orphan--having driven away his comrades--having grown calm and reflective at length--I now feel in a kindlier mood.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
