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

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.

Thus 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.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

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

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

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