Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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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.Samuel Alexander
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.
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
Samuel Alexander
The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
Samuel Alexander
It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
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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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