Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.