The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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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.Samuel Alexander
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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
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
It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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.
Samuel Alexander
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