# Self-reference ## Links (Wikipedia order) <!-- injected from _registry/childlinks/Self-reference.json (2026-07-30T02:09:12Z) --> `8½` · `A_Midsummer_Night's_Dream` · `Abbreviation` · `Adaptation_(film)` · `Article_Five_of_the_United_States_Constitution` · `Assembly_language` · `Autogram` · `Autological_word` · [[Autopoiesis]] · `BBC` · `Being_John_Malkovich` · `Bootstrapping_(compilers)` · `Bryan_Forbes` · `Charlie_Kaufman` · `Circular_definition` · `Circular_reference` · `Computability_theory` · [[Computer_programming]] · [[Computer_science]] · `Consciousness` · `Consistency` · `Denis_Diderot` · `Dhalgren` · `Diagonal_lemma` · `Don_Quixote` · `Douglas_Hofstadter` · `Droste_effect` · `Epimenides_paradox` · `Fallacy` · `Federico_Fellini` · `Film` · `Fixed-point_combinator` · `Fixed_point_(mathematics)` · [[Flip-flop_(electronics)]] · `Formal_language` · `Fourth_wall` · `Fumblerules` · `Functional_programming` · `GNU` · `GNU_Hurd` · [[Game_theory]] · `Graffiti` · `Gödel's_Loophole` · `Gödel's_incompleteness_theorems` · `Gödel,_Escher,_Bach` · `Helen_of_Troy` · `Hofstadter's_law` · `Homer` · `I_(pronoun)` · `If_on_a_winter's_night_a_traveler` · `Iliad` · `Impredicativity` · `Indirection` · `Italo_Calvino` · `John_Barth` · `Jorge_Luis_Borges` · `Krapp's_Last_Tape` · `Kurt_Gödel` · `Language` · `Liar_paradox` · `Linguistics` · `Lisp_(programming_language)` · `Literature` · [[Logic]] · `Lost_in_the_Funhouse` · `Luigi_Pirandello` · `ML_(programming_language)` · `Mathematics` · `Mel_Brooks` · `Meta-reference` · `Metafiction` · `Metamagical_Themas` · `Metaphysics` · `Miguel_de_Cervantes` · `Mise_en_abyme` · `Natural_language` · `New_England_Science_Fiction_Association` · `Nikolai_Gogol` · `Nova_(novel)` · `Omnipotence_paradox` · `Ouroboros` · `Paradox` · `Philosophy` · `Philosophy_of_mind` · `Pine_(email_client)` · `Pleonasm` · `Quine's_paradox` · `Quine_(computing)` · `Quran` · `Raymond_Smullyan` · [[Recurrence_relation]] · `Recursion` · `Recursive_acronym` · `René_Magritte` · `Russell's_paradox` · `Samuel_Beckett` · `Samuel_R._Delany` · `Science_fiction` · [[Second-order_cybernetics]] · `Self-hosting_(compilers)` · `Self-modifying_code` · `Self-referential_humor` · `Semantics_encoding` · `Sentence_(linguistics)` · `Six_Characters_in_Search_of_an_Author` · `Spaceballs` · `Story_within_a_story` · `Strange_loop` · `The_L-Shaped_Room` · `The_Tempest` · `The_Treachery_of_Images` · `This_(computer_programming)` · `Tupper's_self-referential_formula` · `Twelfth_Night` · `Use–mention_distinction` · `Vintage_Books` · `Well-formed_formula` · `Wiki` · `Wikipedia` · `Willard_Van_Orman_Quine` · `William_Safire` > Summary stub · part of Systems Science · [Wikipedia source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reference) ## Summary 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. ## Key points - 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. - Related to systems science as a key concept or application ## Relation to Systems Science Self-reference is an important concept within the broader systems science framework. ## Sources - [Self-reference — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reference) Back to Systems Science --- <!-- SEMIOTIC-PROFILE:START --> ## Semiotic profile > *The semiotic universals this article invokes, machine-derived from the crossref — **unverified** (born so). Populated 2026-07-06 for the Systems room.* **Universals (3):** 🟢 recursion (8) · 🟡 science (6) · 🟡 system (6) **Enter by sign:** Systems Semiotic Gateway · Alphabetum · Icon Registry · ← Systems Portal <!-- SEMIOTIC-PROFILE:END --> ## Wikipedia : Wikitube **Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reference) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/Self-reference) ## Previous hub tags Tree parents: [[Complex_system]] · [[Cybernetics]] · [[Emergence]] · [[Feedback]] · [[Self-organization]] · [[Systems_science]] · [[Systems_theory]]. Legacy hubs: none. --- *Sources: 1 legacy note. Minted wave 1, 2026-07-30 (v1.6 order).*