extraspect
To observe or perceive sensory stimuli, as opposed to internal states.
Verb
- To observe or perceive sensory stimuli, as opposed to internal states.
- 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. - 1963, Margaret Chatterjee, Our Knowledge of Other Selves, page 108:
- 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...
- The mental is indeed introspected, but the brain is in fact extraspected; we see it in the mirror. - 2019, Eric P. Polten, Critique of the Psycho-Physical Identity Theory, page 198:
Origin
From extra- + -spect.