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

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.

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.

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

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

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

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.