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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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.
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
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.
The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.
I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.