Full Idea
It seems impossible for me to acquire perfectly general concepts of thought and feeling, applicable to other people as well as to myself, purely from some queer kind of mental self-observation, but this is what the observational model demands.
Clarification
The 'observational' model is learning of my thoughts and feelings by observing them
Gist of Idea
It seems impossible to get generally applicable mental concepts from self-observation
Source
E.J. Lowe (Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind [2000], Ch.10)
Book Reference
Lowe,E.J.: 'Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind' [CUP 2000], p.289
A Reaction
I don't understand the word 'queer' here, which seems part of an odd modern fashion for denigrating introspection. It is right, though, that the acquisition of general mental concepts from my mind seems to depend on analogy, which is a suspect method.