Was (wer) ist self-reference - definition
![A self-referencing work of [[graffiti]] apologizing for its own existence](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paradox.jpg?width=200 "A self-referencing work of [[graffiti]] apologizing for its own existence")
![[[Drawloom]], with drawboy above to control the harnesses, woven as a repeating pattern in an early-18-hundreds piece of Japanese silk. The silk illustrates the means by which it was produced.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/高機模様裂-Textile fragment with incomplete repeating pattern of loom, weaver, and drawboy MET DP11389.jpg?width=200 "[[Drawloom]], with drawboy above to control the harnesses, woven as a repeating pattern in an early-18-hundreds piece of Japanese silk. The silk illustrates the means by which it was produced.")
Wikipedia
Self-reference is a concept that involves referring to oneself or one's own attributes, characteristics, or actions. It can occur in language, logic, mathematics, philosophy, and other fields.
In natural or formal languages, self-reference occurs when a sentence, idea or formula refers to itself. The reference may be expressed either directly—through some intermediate sentence or formula—or by means of some encoding.
In philosophy, self-reference also refers to the ability of a subject to speak of or refer to itself, that is, to have the kind of thought expressed by the first person nominative singular pronoun "I" in English.
Self-reference is studied and has applications in mathematics, philosophy, computer programming, second-order cybernetics, and linguistics, as well as in humor. Self-referential statements are sometimes paradoxical, and can also be considered recursive.
