Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

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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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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

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

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

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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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