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extraspective en · ADJ

Etymology

From extraspect + -ive.

Meanings

1. Involving extraspection.
   • In claiming the existence of extraspective interactions I am not committing myself to any particular analysis or theory of them, nor am I committing myself to the existence of controversial species of extraspective interactions, such as telepathy. 2001, Seumas Miller, Social Action: A Teleological Account, page 4:
   • However, these treatments could be contrasted not only on the introspective-extraspective, but also on the group-individual dimension, and accordingly current research is examining clients' construing and personal styles in relation to their response to an introspective and an extraspective group therapeutic approach. 1994, David A. Winter, Personal Construct Psychology in Clinical Practice, page 173:
   • 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:

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