"Rethinking" grants the thinker a mastery over the material, a sophistication of attitude, an originality of approach.
[2]Examples of works, social efforts, or entities characterized as "rethinking" include: Some academics have also reexamined prior thought under the rubric of "reconsideration", as with Culture Industry Reconsidered, a 1963 book by German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, and The American Revolution Reconsidered, a 1996 book by American historian Richard B. Morris.
In parliamentary procedure, for example, a matter that was voted on could be brought back again through a "motion to reconsider".
Under Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR), such a motion must be made within a limited time after the action on the original motion: either on the same day or in the case of a multi-day session (such as a convention), on the next day within the session in which business is conducted.
Child Poverty Action Group state that a mandatory reconsideration is a prerequisite for an individual to appeal to a benefit tribunal.