0 examining and considering your own ideas, thoughts, and feelings, instead of talking to other people about them: --
She is famous for her introspective songs about failed relationships.
The argument according to which such a rough consensus must be discarded because ultimately we cannot be sure about introspective reports, appears somewhat unfair.
I also describe a second type of cognitive activity that is normally unobservable but accessible through introspective effort.
The result is an introspective hearing of their stories.
This introspective notion reacts against material implication, that is, weakening.
We cannot argue that we must accept the truth of an introspective report simply because we have no way of testing it!
As a result, the book has an oddly introspective feel.
These older methods are further criticized for their unavailability to "common people," who lack the spare time to engage in this introspective activity.
It is a very short but useful chapter, about the different applications of experimental data, corpus data, and introspective data.