autoreference
Autoreference is a linguistic or logical phenomenon where a statement or expression refers to itself. This self-reference can appear in various forms, including language, mathematics, and computer science. In everyday language, an example might be the sentence "This sentence is short." The sentence itself is the subject of the statement it makes.
In logic and philosophy, autoreference is a key concept in understanding paradoxes. The classic liar paradox,
In mathematics, autoreference can be observed in Gödel's incompleteness theorems. Kurt Gödel demonstrated that in any
In computer science, self-referential structures are common. Recursive functions, for instance, call themselves to solve problems,