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

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

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

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

... 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.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.