Samuel Alexander Perception Quotations

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

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

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

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.

In the act of perception there are accordingly these two things, the mind engaged in a certain act, and the thing called the tree which is not mental.