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

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

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

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

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.