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.
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When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.Samuel Alexander
The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
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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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In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
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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.
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