Talk:Introspection

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[edit] Spiritual/religious bias

The usage of the words "heart" and "soul" from the line that included "... the rumination of one's own heart, mind, or soul ..." implies a spiritual/religious perspective and were removed. Introspection is a purely mental process using one's brain. Incorrect sayings suggesting the "heart" as the source of emotions and spiritual/religous concepts like a "soul" are not scientifically valid enough to use in an Encyclopedia article on a mental process.

-- Usernamefortonyd 00:55, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Link

The link Sample blog about Introspection doesn't seem to have nothing to do with introspection. Thus, I have removed it. David Andel 16:19, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plato original research

I agree with the original research tag on the following sentence, and so I decided to move it here for discussion and proper sourcing. It very well be the case that introspection is as Plato described, but some secondary source needs to make the connection. If someone can provide a reliable source where such a connection is made, please move the following back to the main article.

Introspection is like the activity described by Plato when he asked, "…why should we not calmly and patiently review our own thoughts, and thoroughly examine and see what these appearances in us really are?"^{[1][original research?]}

-FrankTobia (talk) 02:31, 3 January 2008 (UTC)