extraspection

plural extraspections

1. countableuncountableThe act process of extraspecting; the perception of that which is other than one's own internal state.

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

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

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   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.

   1957, Adrian C. Moulyn, Structure, function and purpose, page 156

   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.

   1967, Henryk Skolimowski, Polish Analytical Philosophy

   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.

   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

   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.

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