It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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Practical acts are such as, through the medium of our bodily movements, alter the object or its relation to ourselves or to other subjects.Samuel Alexander
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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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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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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Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
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You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.
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