The Thing Of Which The Act Of

The Perceptive Act Is A Reaction Of The Mind Upon The Object Of Which It Is The Perception.

Thus The Same Object May Supply A Practical Perception To One Person And A Speculative One To Another, Or The Same Person May Perceive It Partly Practically And Partly Speculatively.

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.

Desire Then Is The Invasion Of The Whole Self By The Wish, Which, As It Invades, Sets Going More And More Of The Psychical Processes; But At The Same Time, So Long As It Remains Desire, Does Not Succeed In Getting Possession Of The Self.

What Is The Meaning Of The Togetherness Of The Perceiving Mind, In That Peculiar Modification Of Perceiving Which Makes It Perceive Not A Star But A Tree, And The Tree Itself, Is A Problem For Philosophy