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MIND AND MECHANISM 



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definition that relation to some other state that is to come 

 out of it is essential to conation, and the name may there- 

 fore serve to characterise the activity of mind in general 

 as a factor in the organisation of conduct. What is 

 involved in conation as such and what is peculiar to its 

 distinctive forms, will be questions occupying us at a 

 later stage. 



