An Object Is Not First

We Cannot Therefore Say That Mental Acts Contain A Cognitive As Well As A Conative Element.

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.

When We Come To Images Or Memories Or Thoughts, Speculation, While Always Closely Related To Practice, Is More Explicit, And It Is In Fact Not Immediately Obvious That Such Processes Can Be Described In Any Sense As Practical.

In The Perception Of A Tree We Can Distinguish The Act Of Experiencing, Or Perceiving, From The Thing Experienced, Or Perceived.