In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
Samuel AlexanderIt is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
Samuel AlexanderThe thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
Samuel AlexanderWhen we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.
Samuel Alexander