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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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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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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