The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

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

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.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

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

... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.

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