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Act Quotes by 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…
- Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
- The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
- The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
- In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
- The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
- 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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