Each mental act opens up a new dimension of actuality. In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds.
We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first.
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.
