Sentence examples for * my volition from inspiring English sources

Irrespective of whether these things had anything to do with my volition they have turned out to be my three enduring achievements.

I knew where I was and what I was doing, but my volition seemed to have been dialled down so that I could not move or speak.

According to this view, I control my volition or choice simply in virtue of its being mine its occurring in me.

To use one of Locke's own examples, if I am locked in a room and will to leave, my volition will not result in my leaving (E1-5 II.xxi.10: 238).

One might say, for example, that the pleasure of eating the cake determined my will in the sense of fixing the content of my volition (as the volition to acquire the pleasure of eating the cake) (see Stuart 2013: 439; LoLordo 2012: 55 56).

A volition is an intention that has come to fruition: it has an intentional content but also is causally affecting my behavior: 'I shall eat a light dinner now' expresses my volition and is usually accompanied by at least the first stirrings of activity.

After reading Mr. Noer's article, I can categorically state that I will never again pick up the magazine of my own volition.

"I left the game of my own volition," he said.

I did the same of my own volition.

By then, I was a Stone partisan of my own volition.

I like Vogue, and sometimes read it of my own volition.