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

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

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.

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

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.

Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.

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