Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, … - Samuel Alexander

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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Samuel Alexander

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.

May, Perceive, Perception, Practical, Practically, Speculatively

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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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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

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

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Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

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