In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
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.
What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
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.
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