ABSTRACT
A great part of the disagreement about introspection seems to be due to the ambiguities of the word which arise through the failure to recognise these necessary distinctions. Anyone who holds that toothaches, noises, are states of the mind which feels or senses them will simply regard inspection as a species of introspection. Introspective judgments must state explicitly the characteristics which the objective constituents of introspective situations manifest. The Pure Ego would then be known discursively, but not of necessity inferentially, as the common owner of such and such particular contemporary and successive mental events. The Total Self will then be the larger complex which consists of the Empirical Self and of the Pure Ego standing in the relation of ownership to the mental events which are constituents of the Empirical Self.
