We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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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.
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Every mental state is also physical.
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
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