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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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.Samuel Alexander
It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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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.
Samuel Alexander
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
Practical acts are such as, through the medium of our bodily movements, alter the object or its relation to ourselves or to other subjects.
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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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