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introspectionist

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who practises introspection; one who follows the introspective method in psychological inquiry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Metaph.) One given to the introspective method of examining the phenomena of the soul.

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  • noun metaphysics One given to the introspective method of examining the phenomena of the soul.

Etymologies

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introspection +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • Indeed such a conclusion was urged by early introspectionist psychologists long before the discovery of reactive dissociation.

    Pain Aydede, Murat 2009

  • Due to his introspectionist approach of describing consciousness from a first person point of view, on one hand, and his rigorous style as well as his contention that philosophy should be done with exact methods like the sciences, on the other,

    Franz Brentano Huemer, Wolfgang 2007

  • Opposition to dealing with consciousness can be understood as a legacy of behavioristic psychology first because of the behaviorists 'rejection of terms for unobservables unless they could be formally defined, and second because of the strong association in many behaviorists' minds between the use of mentalistic terms and the twin bugaboos of Cartesian dualism and introspectionist psychology (Bekoff & Allen 1997).

    Animal Consciousness Allen, Colin 2006

  • “The Tridimensional Theory of Feeling and Emotion”, is a long, chatty, account of the evolution of Wundt's writings and views, with extensive quotations in his original German, by the last major representative of the introspectionist school of early academic experimental psychology.

    Pleasure Katz, Leonard D. 2006

  • This new science, together with the individual differences between subjects it shows, may also explain the remarkable failures of introspectionist psychologists (n. 3, ¶ 3) and of philosophers to agree on whether pleasure has one phenomenal feel, a diversity, or none at all and why bodily sensations (which are not similarly resistant to inspection) may show up instead.

    Pleasure Katz, Leonard D. 2006

  • QUESTION #62: I am under the impression that no advanced Yogi has ever achieved anything in the realm of matter or contributed to progress outside of writing about high, abstract and introspectionist themes and inspiring a small handful to do likewise.

    The common man cannot understand Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • But Ryle may be more influenced by the difficulty of attending to describable features of pleasure (on which see §1. 3, next to last paragraph) and by its consequences in introspectionist psychology

    Pleasure Katz, Leonard D. 2006

  • The introspectionist wants to get at the riddle of the universe by crawling into the innermost depth of his own self-scrutiny, even at the risk -- to use a homely phrase -- of drawing the hole in after him and losing all connection with the objective world.

    A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 Various

  • The ` ` healthy-minded '' acknowledge the leadership of a past introspectionist but despise the contemporary one as futile and light-headed.

    The Foundations of Personality 1921

  • The Hamlet doubting type is an introspectionist and oscillates in his mind from yea to nay on every question.

    The Foundations of Personality 1921

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