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An expectation is a future obj...

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

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

Both expectations and memories...

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

Psychology is the science of t...

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

It may be added, to prevent mi...

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

An expectation is a future obj...

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

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

An object is not first imagine...

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

Both expectations and memories...

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

But though cognition is not an...

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

But unfortunately Locke treate...

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

Curiosity begins as an act of ...

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

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

Desire then is the invasion of...

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

For psychological purposes the...

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.

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

Hence, in desiring, the more t...

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

In the act of perception there...

In the act of perception there are accordingly these two things, the mind engaged in a certain act, and the thing called the tree which is not mental.

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

You can mark in desire the ris...

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

The sensory acts are according...

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

The thing of which the act of ...

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

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

The perceptive act is a reacti...

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

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

Thus the same object may suppl...

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.

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

In the perception of a tree we...

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

Samuel Alexander 27 quotes

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