What....did I over-simplify?
You accused me of being arrogant in rejecting some collective experience, when all I’m rejecting is an idea.
(Sigh) — Mww
And what it is he says it does?I deny that the idea of introspection does what you say it does.
you don't deny our experience, just that what we experienced exists. — T Clark
OK, I don't think I've asserted that - not that you said I did, as far as I've noticed. It leaves room for it to be a means of self-observation (and is nearly synonymous). But this matches my sense that people have a lot of blind spots in introspection. That it is a skill, and it takes a willingness, amongst other things, to be unpleasantly surprised, at a very gut level. Other forms of self-observation also require skill and some need to be able to face unpleasance, but not on such a gut level. To find, for example, contempt for someone one loves, it quite different from noticing that one tends not to clean up after dinner when your wife didn't have sex with you the evening before. To feel that smack of the 'wrong' emotion takes more than a little bravery to explore.I reject the idea of introspection as the most obvious, most readily available, most commonly accessed, means for self-observation. — Mww
I reject the idea of introspection as the most obvious, most readily available, most commonly accessed, means for self-observation. — Mww
It is in their best interests, it's just that people do not become that way naturally — Judaka
matches my sense that people have a lot of blind spots in introspection. — Coben
Nobody has full knowledge about the reasoning for their thoughts and actions — Judaka
Generally, pure thought; specifically, as a component of it, understanding. — Mww
They could. All they gotta do is think about it. — Mww
And I will admit that people are liable to have blind spots in their understandings. — Mww
Full knowledge about the reasoning, probably not. But reasoning itself is a conscious activity, which makes explicit the subject absolutely must fully know the thoughts it is reasoning about. — Mww
Certainly about themselves and other people. The motivations for bias are so strong.And I will admit that people are liable to have blind spots in their understandings. — Mww
This agrees with my conception of introspection as the examination of mental events, a type of reflection (examination of experience). How would you define introspection?Introspection is an essential aspect of critical inquiry, if not critical inquiry itself. — James Laughlin
Please elaborate.Introspection is inevitable. — James Laughlin
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