The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
Samuel AlexanderWe cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
Samuel AlexanderPsychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
Samuel AlexanderSuch being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.
Samuel Alexander