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Soros’s core idea is reflexivity: Narratives aren’t just noise, they’re engines.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026

Around the same time, philanthropist George Soros adapted the concept of reflexivity to explain how investors’ perceptions affect the social environment, which, in turn, informs their perceptions.

From Nature • Oct. 22, 2019

The book folds back upon itself with a pop-cultural reflexivity that’s among Wallace’s own subjects of literary obsession.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2015

In brief, most of them involve either trying to increase the reflexivity of the atmosphere—by amplifying high-altitude cloud cover or even constructing mirrors in space—or aiding the ability of the oceans to absorb carbon.

From Time • Sep. 7, 2011

Less reflexivity and more plasticity, the eye more on the object, would raise the style of Vinet, so rich in substance, so nervous, so full of ideas, and variety, into a grand style.

From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.