Samuel Alexander's Profile
Brief about Samuel Alexander: By info that we know Samuel Alexander was born at 1970-01-01. And also Samuel Alexander is Australian Philosopher.
Some Samuel Alexander's quotes. Goto "Samuel Alexander's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Desire, Self, SideBoth expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
Tags: Both, Experience, MemoriesIt 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.
Tags: Last, May, SpeakWhat 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.
Tags: Mind, Philosophy, ProblemPsychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
Tags: Life, Science, WholeFor 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.
Tags: Object, Thought, VirtueThe interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
Tags: Between, Desire, MayBut unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
Tags: Another, Ideas, ReflectionIn the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
Tags: Act, Perception, TreeIt is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
Tags: Difficult, Name, SideMental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
Tags: Life, Mental, PracticeThe mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
Tags: Act, Mental, SimpleThe perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Tags: Act, Mind, PerceptionThe thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
Tags: Act, Mental, PerceptionWe cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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