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

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.

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

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

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.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.