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

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.

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

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

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.