extraspect

To observe or perceive sensory stimuli, as opposed to internal states.

Verb

  1. 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.

Forms

extraspects extraspecting extraspected

Derived

extraspection extraspective