... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.

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

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.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.