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Page 2 of 2Samuel Alexander
January 6, 1859 - September 13, 1938
Nationality: Australian
Category: Philosopher
Subcategory: Australian Philosopher
|  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. | | It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name. | | Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life. | | 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. | | In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived. | | But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. |
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