introspect
verb/ˌɪntɹəˈspɛkt/
Etymology From Latin intrōspectus, past participle of intrōspiciō. By surface analysis, intro- + -spect.
1
To engage in introspection.
2
To look into.
- 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.2012, J. R. Mendola, Human Thought:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences To examine by means of type introspection.
- DynamicMBeanFacade uses Java's reflection API to introspect the managed resource and discover data type information for attributes.2002, Java Enterprise Best Practices, O'Reilly:
- Derived terms
- extrospect, introspectability, introspectable