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 More Quotes by Samuel Alexander More Quotes From Samuel Alexander But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. Samuel Alexander reflection class ideas The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental. Samuel Alexander perception 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 perceive perception may It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words. Samuel Alexander swag kind two 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 Samuel Alexander stars tree philosophy Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice. Samuel Alexander ends practice life-is