The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
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Thus we have to recognize that a thing as perceived contains besides sensory elements other elements present to the mind only in ideal form.Samuel Alexander
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
It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
Samuel Alexander
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
The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
Samuel Alexander
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
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