Samuel Alexander

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. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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

— Samuel Alexander

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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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

— Samuel Alexander

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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. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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

— Samuel Alexander

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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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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. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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