extraspect

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English

Etymology

From extra- +‎ -spect.

Verb

extraspect (third-person singular simple present extraspects, present participle extraspecting, simple past and past participle extraspected)

  1. To observe or perceive sensory stimuli, as opposed to internal states.
    • 1963, Margaret Chatterjee, Our Knowledge of Other Selves, page 108:
      To extraspect what is going on in people's minds bears various dissemblances from observing what is going on in the world of material objects.
    • 2013, J. Heil, Cause, Mind, and Reality: Essays Honoring C.B. Martin, page 132:
      Considered as a theory of introspection, the view which Charlie was expounding in 'Low Claim Assertions' and which I incorporated into my refutation of the phenomenological fallacy in 'Is Consciousness a Brain Process?', may be described as 'the linguistic by-product theory of introspection', the view according to which the ability to introspect and construct introspective reports on one's own private experiences develops as a by-product of the ability to 'extraspect' and describe that aspect of the public world which is currently impinging on one's sense organs.
    • 2019, Eric P. Polten, Critique of the Psycho-Physical Identity Theory, page 198:
      The mental is indeed introspected, but the brain is in fact extraspected; we see it in the mirror.

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