The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel AlexanderBut unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
Samuel AlexanderThus 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 AlexanderThe thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
Samuel Alexander