Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

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

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

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.

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.

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