The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel Alexander
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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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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
- Samuel Alexander