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

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

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

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

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

... 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.

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.