extraspection

English

Etymology

extraspect +‎ -ion

Noun

extraspection (countable and uncountable, plural extraspections)

1. The act process of extraspecting; the perception of that which is other than one's own internal state.
   • 1957, Adrian C. Moulyn, Structure, function and purpose, page 156:

     But whoever is interested in the purpose-striving behavior, the emotional life and the internal states of man and of some higher animals cannot travel the road of extraspection exclusively: he must follow the path of introspection.

   • 1967, Henryk Skolimowski, Polish Analytical Philosophy:

     In the same way as the alleged mental occurrences of other people are reduced to the description of physical bodies, introspection is reduced by means of imitation to extraspection or autoimitation.

   • 1975, Edo Pivcevic, Phenomenology and Philosophical Understanding, page 8:

     But some of this awareness has indirect objects that are not mental ; some introspection is also extraspection.

   • 1997 Spring, E Keen, “"Being-in, Being-for, Being-with", by Clark Moustakas (Book Review)”, in Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, volume 28, number 1, page 122:

     Finally, and perhaps of most interest to readers of this journal, Moustakas offers us his version of how the deliberate introspecting of our extraspections bears on the task of phenomenological psychotherapy.

   • 2014, C.D. Broad, The Mind and its Place in Nature, page 328:

     The perception of another body and of certain movements or modifications of it is essential to extraspection; and so one part of the objective constituent of any extraspective situation is the vidual and other sensa by which the foreign body appears to us in perception.