... 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.

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

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

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

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

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.