>Hmmm. Maybe I misunderstood again if you say introspection measures something
>real.
I don't require the referrent of a measurement process to be "real".
Agnosticism about reality is very helpful here.
>If introspection produces a spiritual vision, do we then say that it
>measured a real spirit?
I'm saying that psychological phenomenology is a perfectly valid basis to
develop a scientific theory, requiring empiricism, rationality
(consistency), coherence, etc. Why wouldn't it be? No claims necessarily
need be advanced about reduction to physical or brain states, but if they
are available, they would be preferable (coherence).
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