“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.” MayLastsCoursesSpeakObjectsPhrasesContemplationEnjoymentMisunderstanding Author:Samuel Alexander
“An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.” ObjectsExpectationsBelonging Author:Samuel Alexander
“The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.” ObjectsDistinguishedSensory Author:Samuel Alexander
“But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.” IfsIdeasClassObjectsReflectionTreatedContemplationSensations Author:Samuel Alexander
“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.” ObjectsPropertyImpulseEnjoymentFancyDelayedFruition Author:Samuel Alexander
“The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.” MindObjectsPerceptionReactions Author:Samuel Alexander
“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.” MayPersonsObjectsPerceptionPracticalsPerceive Author:Samuel Alexander
“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.” FirstsObjectsExpected Author:Samuel Alexander
“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.” ImportantPurposeDifferencesVirtueObjectsPsychologicalRemembered Author:Samuel Alexander
