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/rˈiflɛks ˈækʃən/ Listen

adjective

Reflex adj.

Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective. "The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions."

Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.

(Physiol.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness.

Reflex action (Physiol.), any action performed involuntarily in consequence of an impulse or impression transmitted along afferent nerves to a nerve center, from which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so calls into action certain muscles, organs, or cells.

Reflex nerve (Physiol.), an excito-motory nerve. See Exito-motory.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... development objectively, in terms of the correspondence between inner and outer phenomena, we find a gradual progress from the less to the more complex, from the lower to the higher, without a break. Reflex action, instinct, memory, reason, are simply stages in the process. All is dependent on experience. Even the forms of knowledge, which are a priori to the individual, are the product of experience in the ...

— History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg