internalistn.adj.

1853 E. L. Frothingham Statement Trinitarian Princ. 40 Transcendentalists, as internalists, relying upon an internal direction, become observers of the phenomena of the consciousness, which include the motives or causes of action.

1911 Philos. Rev. 20 286 If the internalist, viewing the nature of philosophic thought, entertains his own view as a result, he is not in relation to something external to his own thought. He is thinking about thought.

1934 W. Lewis in New Statesman 12 May 709/1 D. H. Lawrence was plainly an ‘internalist’ of almost pathologic intensity—a man very much of the ‘dark Within’, but one who rather oddly gathered his material from the sunlit Without.

1970 China Q. Oct. 150 The terms ‘internalist’ and ‘externalist’ apply to historiography of science. The ‘internalist’ sees scientific development as the product of the internal logic of science itself, and rather independent of sociological or economic factors.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 July 27/1 Under attack from externalism, the typical internalist today holds that you can be justified in believing that there is a red cup in front of you from that visual experience alone, even if you do not conceptualize that experience as a reason for the truth of the belief.

1895 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. Oct. 440 Among English internalists Bramwell states that aortic incompetence is never muscular.

1901 Clin. Rev. Nov. 161 Surgery is progressing day by day to the conquering of new strongholds of intestinal disease which are beyond the reach of the internalist.

1928 Amer. Speech 4 158 H. A. Royster, M.D...expresses the opinion..that ‘internalist’ should be used instead of ‘internist’.

1965 San Antonio (Texas) Express 12 July 6 d/7 Dr Creamer emphasized the need of general practitioners besides the internalists who work with the San Antonio chapter.

2014 Prince George Citizen (Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 29 July a4 Other specialist doctors are about to set up practices in Prince George: an internalist is coming in late July.

1911 Philos. Rev. 20 283 Mr. Russell..says, speaking of the internalist view, ‘This opinion seems to rest upon some law of sufficient reason, some desire to show that every truth is necessary.’

1928 D. Seabury Growing into Life (1930) p. xi We must come at last then to the solution of human life, not from the externalist's attitude of what tradition says men ought to be, but from an internalist attitude which asks to know what he is.

1964 Sci. & Society 28 387 The great stumbling-block here for the internalist school of historiography of science..is the question of historical causation.

1985 J. Kerman Musicol. 119 By Fenlon's standards, Newcomb deals with music in too purely ‘internalist’ a fashion, paying insufficient attention to the socio-political conditions that produced it.

2001 R. L. Arrington & M. Addis Wittgenstein & Philos. Relig. vi. 92 The second premiss in the internalist argument is that there is division of human life into strict compartments, each autonomous as far as its meaning is concerned.

2014 Guardian (Nexis) 18 Oct. 7 Jennifer Nagel's admirably clear and engaging survey ranges over internalist theories (you must have first-person access to some justification for believing the truth) and externalist ones.