Swimmer963 comments on Teaching Introspection - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Swimmer963 01 August 2011 08:57:34PM 1 point [-]

Introspection considered questionable, reflection considered absolutely mandatory.

To me "reflection" means just thinking about something you already know, and "introspection" adds the act of digging around in your mind for something you don't yet know. But it's happened to me before that the complex concepts in my head, tied to a given word, are different than the concepts that that word encodes for other people. Is this another of those times?