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Introspection and Its Limits

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Introspection is a trained report of one's own conscious experience, and it cannot be checked by a second observer.

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Two trained observers in Wundt's laboratory describe the same tone differently, and no third measurement settles which report is right.

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Unverifiable is not the same as false. Introspection failed as a method, not as a phenomenon.