Chapter 1 concluded that a genuine look at inner experience must apprehend moments of truth, and that it must do so by genuinely submitting to the constraints that the exploration of inner experience imposes. It made the moments ↔ experience ↔ genuinely-submitting-to-the-constraints co-determination case: You can't encounter moments without encountering experience and vice versa; and you can't encounter moments or experience without genuinely submitting to the constraints that that endeavor imposes. Chapter 2 focused primarily on the experience portion of that co-determination, using the example of the experience of bulimic women to demonstrate that apprehending pristine experience might well be worth the effort required, might well be a matter of substantial consequence in some cases.

Now we turn the screw into moments of truth by focusing primarily on the genuinely-submitting-to-the-constraints aspect, but because of the co-determination, that will also require deepening our appreciation of moments and experience. Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES) is the concrete instantiation of my best efforts toward genuinely submitting to the constraints imposed by the exploration of pristine experience. My colleagues and I have subjected DES to some substantial scrutiny (Hurlburt & Heavey, 2002, 2006; Hurlburt & Schwitzgebel, 2007). In a fundamental way, the moments ↔ experience ↔ genuinely-submitting-to-the-constraints analysis and DES are two sides of the same coin, two complementary perspectives on the apprehension of pristine experience. Moments ↔ experience ↔ genuinely-submitting-to-the-constraints is the analytic side; DES is the action side of the same coin.