• Introspectability

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    introspectability

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    1. The quality of being subject to introspection.
      1. (programming, object-oriented) The quality of supporting type introspection.
        • 2000, Roger Teichmann, Logic, Cause and Action, This shows, I think, that sensitivity to the argument from soft introspectability is an untenable halfway house; we must accept strict introspectability or nothing.
        • 2006, Jonathan Gratch, Intelligent Virtual Agents: 6th International Conference, IVA, Besides the open question of the full introspectability of arbitrary application code, there is another mental obstacle: conventional programmers consider that dynamic symbolic models are mere gadget applications, “too slow and not professional" but this situation could change with the maturity of web-based scripting (like wikis, active technology, ...).
        • 2010, M. Papazoglou, ‎Klaus Pohl, ‎& Michael Parkin, Service Research Challenges and Solutions for the Future Internet, It includes subfactors such as introspectability, controlability, and notifiability of the Web service and of the platform, measured by both taking into account the possibility that these sub-factors can be achieved and whether they are actually achieved.
      2. (psychology) The quality of being accessible to self-examination and awareness.
        • 2007, UMI, Eliminative Materialism and the Distinction Between Common Sense and Science, Introspectability cannot be the mark of the mental because one can introspect physical states, like indigestion or other internal physical events in the body.
        • 2013, Peter Carruthers, The Opacity of Mind: An Integrative Theory of Self-Knowledge, Moreover, everyone will now accept that some aspects of our mental lives aren't even accessible to introspection. So transparent-access theorists need to provide an account o the distingction between those mental events that are, in principle, transparently accessible and those that are not. In effect, they need to provide us with a criterion of introspectability.
        • 2014, David Bennett & ‎Christopher Hill, Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness, For example, is introspectability a necessary condition for presence to consciousness?
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