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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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.Samuel Alexander
It is a different and independent thing, and the character of the mental act only determines how much of the object is apprehended and in what form.
Samuel Alexander
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
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.
Samuel Alexander
The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
Samuel Alexander
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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