Glossary

Introspection An unmediated judgment that has as its intentional object a current psychological or phenomenal state of one’s own.

Discrimination The capacity to attentively single the state out from amongst the other experiences that one has at the time in question.

Categorize To categorize a phenomenal state is to locate it within a taxonomy of some kind.

Directly and indirectly introspective judgments A direct introspective judgment concerns the phenomenal character/content of one’s current phenomenal state(s) and is grounded in a single act of introspective attention, whereas an indirect introspective judgment concerns the general nature of one’s conscious experience and is not grounded in a single act of introspective attention.

Scaffolded judgments An introspective judgment is scaffolded if and only if it is accompanied by a disposition to make a first-order judgment (e.g., a perceptual judgment) whose content broadly corresponds to the judgment of the introspective judgment. For example, the judgment that one has a visual experience as of a red tomato in front of one is scaffolded insofar as it is accompanied by a disposition to make the perceptual judgment that there is a red tomato in front of one.

Freestanding judgments An introspective judgment is freestanding if and only if it is not accompanied by a disposition to make a first-order judgment (e.g., a perceptual judgment) whose contents broadly corresponds to the judgment of the introspective judgment.