What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy

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

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

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

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.

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

... 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.