It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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 AlexanderThe perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel Alexander