Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.Samuel Alexander
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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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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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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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.
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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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