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Samuel Alexander Quotes & Sayings
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26 entries tagged including 4 subtopics.
Last updated May 2024
Samuel Alexander Topics
Expectations
Contemplation
Perception
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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
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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.
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For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
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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.
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
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Expectations quotes
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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Contemplation quotes
In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
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Perception quotes
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.
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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.
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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.
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
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The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
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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.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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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.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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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.
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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