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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

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

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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

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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.

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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

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In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

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It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

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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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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 6th, 1859

Died: September 13th, 1938

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