52.) It has been shown that an expectation is a complex idea which, like a memory, is made up of two constituents.

The one is the idea of an object, the other is the idea of a relation of sequence between that object and some present object; and the reasoning which applied to memories applies to expectations.

To have an expectation[25] of a given event, and to believe that it will happen, are only two modes of stating the same fact.

Again, just in the same way as we call a memory, put into words, a belief, so we give the same name to an expectation in like clothing.

And the fact already cited, that a child before it can speak acts upon its memories, is good evidence that it forms expectations.