introspect

• Rhymes: -ɛkt

introspect (third-person singular simple present introspects, present participle introspecting, simple past and past participle introspected)

1. (intransitive) To engage in introspection.
2. (transitive) To look into.
   • 2012, J. R. Mendola, Human Thought

     Second, to say that something is introspectible, that we can introspect it, is not to imply that we are in fact aware of it. What's more, I haven't claimed that we even can introspect all the thoughts we have, only that we can introspect that we have two important sorts of thoughts.

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