For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
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 AlexanderBoth expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
Samuel AlexanderThe thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
Samuel Alexander