Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
Samuel AlexanderWhen we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.
Samuel AlexanderBoth expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
Samuel AlexanderBut unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
Samuel Alexander