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.
Samuel AlexanderBut though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
Samuel AlexanderWe cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
Samuel AlexanderIt is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
Samuel Alexander