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nounnonreflexivity (uncountable)
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe property of a binary relation that is not reflexive; that is, there exists at least one x such that not Rxx.
A relation is nonreflexive if it is not reflexive, i.e., if there is a point that is not R-related to itself.
2001, Patrick Blackburn, Maarten de Rijke, Yde Venema, Modal Logic, Cambridge University Press, page 97
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