298 examples of volition in sentences

My reply shaped itself almost without my volition.

Noticeable emotivity, a rapidity of perception and volition, impulsiveness, and a tendency to explosive crises of expression are the distinctive psychic traits.

Without volition, without effort, there shot into the memory of this bewildered, staggering, half-stupefied man the one thing which could have saved himthat blind eye of which the Master's son had spoken.

If independent volition, sensible or subliminal, were absent, it could hardly have been apparent.

He considered the vulgar passenger as so much troublesome freight, which, while it brought the advantage of a higher remuneration than the same cubic measurement of inanimate matter, had the unpleasant drawback of volition and motion.

It had been succeeded by the single rolling swell, like the outer circle of waves produced by dropping a stone into the water, and the regular and increasing agitation of the lake, until the element broke as in a tempest, and that seemingly of its own volition, since not a breath of air was stirring.

With no volition of their own, their uncertain young legs carried them to the porch.

By the mere act of volition He gave birth to the Logos, who was the real originative cause of things.

This modest and candid estimate of his vocation indicates how much more a thing of volition and opportunity, and how much less a work of special endowment and intuitive recognition is the literature of History than that of Poetry, Psychology, or Philosophy, notwithstanding all these may be fused therein.

At the beginning of the first development God is will without object, eternal quietude and rest, unqualified groundlessness without determinate volition.

Cogitatio includes all the conscious activities of the mind, volition, emotion, and sensation, as well as representation and cognition; they are all modi cogitandi.

He distinguishes volition and judgment from ideas in the narrow sense (imagines), and divides the latter, according to their origin, into three classes: ideae innatae, adventitiae, a me ipso factae, considering the second class, the "adventitious" ideas, the most numerous, but the first, the "innate" ideas, the most important.

Position, figure, motion, are contingent properties of body; they presuppose that it is extended or spatial; they are modi extensionis, as feeling, volition, desire, representation, and judgment are possible only in a conscious being, and hence are merely modifications of thought.

The natural appetites and affections are forms of volition, it is true, but not free products of the mind, for they take their origin in its connection with the body.

Every act of the will, again, is accompanied by the consciousness of volition.

Thus not every volition, e.g. sensuous desire, is action nor all perception, e.g. that of the pure intellect, passion.

Finally, certain psychical phenomena fall indifferently under the head of perception or of volition, e.g., pain, which is both an indistinct idea of something and an impulse to shun it.

The contradiction with which Descartes has been charged, that he makes volition and cognition reciprocally determinative, that he bases moral goodness on the clearness of ideas and vice versa, does not exist.

Further, Geulincx expressly says that God has imposed such laws on motion that it harmonizes with the soul's free volition, of which, however, it is entirely independent (similar statements occur also in De la Forge).

God, does not require works, but dispositions only, for the result of our volition is beyond our power.

This endeavor (conatus) is termed will (voluntas) or desire (cupiditas) when it is referred to the mind alone, and appetite (appetitus) when referred to the mind and body together; desire or volition is conscious appetite (III. prop.

The essence of the mind is thought; volition is not only dependent on cognition, but at bottom identical with it.

To the two stages of knowing, imaginatio and intellectus, correspond two stages of willingdesire, which is ruled by imagination, and volition, which is guided by reason.

One night when the servants were alone in the house, of its own volition the organ sent forth, to break the still hours, a blood-curdling basso-profundo groan that suggested ghosts to their superstitious minds.

"This," says Henley, "is perhaps her finest virtue as it is certainly her greatest charm; that until she set the example, woman in literature as a self-suffering individuality, as an existence endowed with equal rights to independenceof choice, volition, actionwith man had not begun to be."

298 examples of  volition  in sentences