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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In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.Samuel Alexander
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
Samuel Alexander
What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
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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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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.
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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