We 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 AlexanderIt is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
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