Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
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It is a different and independent thing, and the character of the mental act only determines how much of the object is apprehended and in what form.Samuel Alexander
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
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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.
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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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.
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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.
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