Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.
I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
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.
It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.
In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.
What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.