reflection

• CURIE: gmeow:eventTypeReflection
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/eventTypeReflection
• Category: individual
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/metacognition
• Box roles: ABox role (What is this?)

An event of an agent reviewing its OWN reasoning — re-examining a prior inference, belief, or self-assessment. A value individual of gmeow:EventType (the eventTypeDeception pattern), so a reflection is typed and queryable as an occurrent kind. A reflection may install a gmeow:hasDefeater on one of the agent's own gmeow:InferenceCommitment individuals, triggering belief revision — modelled as SUPPRESSION (gmeow:displayable false on the defeated conclusion, the prior inference retained as audit), never deletion (Principle 10). The bridge to the inference slice is documented routing, not an axiom.

Structure

Types: gmeow:EventType

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:eventTypeReflection as a controlled value typed as gmeow:EventType.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Reflection Revision

• Source: slices/core/metacognition/examples/reflection-revision.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-metacognition-examples-reflection-revision

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example — REFLECTION defeating one's own inference, belief revision as
# SUPPRESSION (Principle 10). The metacognition layer over the inference slice's
# belief-revision pattern: Lillith inductively concluded "the server is down" from
# "the ping timed out". On REFLECTION (a gmeow:Event typed gmeow:eventTypeReflection,
# tied to the reflexive layer by a gmeow:MetacognitiveState whose gmeow:metaTarget
# is her OWN gmeow:InferenceCommitment) she surfaces an UNDERCUTTING defeater — a
# firewall rule blocked the ping, removing the warrant. Revision does NOT delete:
# the conclusion-claim is set gmeow:displayable false, the gmeow:InferenceTenure is
# closed, and the gmeow:InferenceCommitment is retained as audit. The defeater is
# installed via the inference slice's gmeow:hasDefeater (reused by reference); the
# reflection → revision link is a documented bridge, never an axiom.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/metacognition/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

# --- The reflection act: Lillith reviews her OWN reasoning (the metacognition
#     layer). The event carries the gmeow:eventTypeReflection value; a
#     gmeow:MetacognitiveState ties the review to the reflexive layer, its
#     gmeow:metaTarget pointing at her own inference commitment.
ex:lillithReview a gmeow:Event ;
    gmeow:eventType gmeow:eventTypeReflection .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:EventType

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to type an event of an agent reviewing its own reasoning — a reflection act that may revise a prior belief — when the reviewable occurrence is the fact of interest, e.g. recording that a reflection defeated an earlier inference.

Avoid when

• Avoid using it for the unfolding reasoning EPISODE itself (that is a gmeow:MentalProcess, mentation — one canonical source per fact, Principle 4) and avoid treating the reflection→revision link as an entailment; the gmeow:hasDefeater installation is asserted, not derived.

How to use

• Type a reflection event with gmeow:eventType gmeow:eventTypeReflection; record belief revision by installing gmeow:hasDefeater on the agent's own gmeow:InferenceCommitment and suppressing the defeated conclusion with gmeow:displayable false, retaining the prior inference as audit (Principle 10).

Scope notes

• Boundary with the mentation slice (documentation only): gmeow:eventTypeReflection types a reviewable occurrent KIND, like gmeow:eventTypeDeception. A reflection that unfolds as a reasoning PROCESS is a gmeow:MentalProcess (mentation); to avoid two canonical sources for one fact (Principle 4), use this EventType for the reviewable act and the mentation process type for the unfolding episode, not both for the same individual.

Examples

• ex:lillithReview a gmeow:Event; gmeow:eventType gmeow:eventTypeReflection.