We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
Samuel AlexanderThe thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
Samuel AlexanderPsychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
Samuel AlexanderFor 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.
Samuel Alexander