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

But 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.

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

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.

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.