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Samuel Alexander

"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."

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"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."

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"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."

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Samuel Alexander
"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively."

Perception

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Samuel Alexander
"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."

Perception

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Samuel Alexander
"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."

Conation

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Samuel Alexander
"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis."

Act

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Samuel Alexander
"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental."

Perception

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Samuel Alexander
"An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."

Expectation

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Samuel Alexander
"Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life."

Business

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Samuel Alexander
"In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived."

Perception

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Samuel Alexander
"The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness."

Desire

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Samuel Alexander
"For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought."

Thought

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