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• Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
• It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation,…
• An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
• The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
• Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
• The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by…
• But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
• Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition,…
• 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.
• Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person…
• In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

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