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

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

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

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

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.

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.