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in which the relation of each step to the end is also explicitly 

 present to me. The correlation of elements falls within 

 consciousness. It does not merely affect consciousness 

 from outside. It is part of the explicit content. In par- 

 ticular the relation of my act to its result is clear to my 

 consciousness. There is in fact a correlation on the one 

 hand of perceptual data, the space relations of book, table, 

 room, etc., and on the other of practical means and ends, 

 the movements necessary to get the book, and the correla- 

 tion of practical means and ends is based on the correlation 

 of perceptual data. 



In such correlation of means and ends we are said to act 

 intentionally or with purpose, and the end is held in 

 ordinary thought to determine the act. This at once raises 

 the question, how and in what sense can a future event, no 

 matter how near, be conceived as actually going to deter- 

 mine, to cause, the act which brings it about ? As to the 

 proximate means common language has its answer. The 

 effect of my act determines me through the idea which I 

 form of it. The idea is a state or act referring to some- 

 thing not as such present, and when I form such an idea 

 and act upon it, I act with purpose, and when I act with 

 purpose I do so either desiring or resolving to obtain the 

 end. We shall see that resolve, so far as it is distinct from 

 Desire, involves the elements that constitute desire (and 

 aversion) and more. We may therefore confine ourselves 

 for the present to Desire, and define it as an idea of some- 

 thing not yet real, charged with the feeling-tone prompting 

 to such actions as will make it real. Action of this kind 

 therefore involves Purpose in the form of Desire, and these 

 involve Ideas, and as the ideas are of co-ordinated elements 

 .and ideal elements presented in co-ordination form the con- 

 tent of Judgments, we may say that the judgment also is 

 involved. As the judgment of the present case is based 

 on or determined by a past judgment l we must admit that 

 it is inferential, but the inferential process is not as yet 

 necessarily explicit that is the common elements connec- 

 ting premise and conclusion do not form distinct contents 



1 1 mean, e.g. that my belief that the book is in my room is based on 

 the remembrance that I left it there. 



