ABSTRACT
Hitherto we have had to deal only with those acts of the mind which aim at apprehending and retaining what is given to it. For both the movements of analytic attention and the construction which sums up a number of facts given at different times must be regarded as aiming, not at the assertion of anything further, but merely at the formation of a more vivid and complete knowledge of what is and has been presented. We have indeed been obliged to recognise mental states, like ideas and judgments, which normally, perhaps always, involve something further. But we have purposely treated them in isolation from this disturbing factor, and have described them as what they would be without it rather than as they actually are.
