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

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

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.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.