Samuel Alexander Quotes

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

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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 mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

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• Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.

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• When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

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• 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.

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• What 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.

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Samuel Alexander (27)

Birth:	6th January, 1859
Death:	13th September, 1938
Nationality:	Australian, British
Profession:	Philosopher

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