"It is more difficult to designate this form……" — Samuel Alexander
"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."
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Samuel Alexander
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26 Quotes by Samuel Alexander
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects…
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth…
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of…
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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of…
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The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
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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…
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In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or…
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