Sentence examples for a volition that from inspiring English sources

Locke assumes (reasonably) that in order for an action A to be voluntary, it must be caused (in the right way) by a volition that A occur (or, as Locke sometimes puts it, by a volition to do A).

Kuldip had an entrepreneurial spirit to succeed, a volition that propelled him to business heights he dreamed about as a child.

For example, Locke would not count the motion of my left arm as voluntary if it were caused by a volition that my right arm move (or a volition that my left arm remain at rest).

For in the case of convulsive motion, there is no volition that one's limbs move; indeed, if there is volition in such cases, it is usually a volition that one's limbs not move.

The agent wills his arm to move or produces a volition that his arm is to move, and it is this mental willing or volition that is aimed at causing his arm to move.

Thus, whenever I observe the arm of another going up I can infer that there is a consciousness of that body from the inside that contains a volition that the arm go up.

For Bañez, then, the actual grace in question is a sort of supernatural beginning of volition that is produced in the human being by God and that infallibly results in a meritorious act of will.

My mom was too tired to help him shop so, one day, he showed up to Friday prayers at the mosque wearing a T-shirt he'd bought of his own volition that said, "Una cerveza por favor".

My mum was too tired to help him shop so, one day, he showed up to Friday prayers at the mosque wearing a T-shirt he'd bought of his own volition that said, "Una cerveza por favor".

To mimic that behaviour, Dr Moussaid added a third rule, which made members of his crowd more molecule-like when they were at very close quarters a lack of volition that will be familiar to anyone who has been in a tight jam of humanity.With this third rule added, the model accurately reproduced the dynamics of dense crowds as well as those of sparser ones.

It is the volition that is the real person, the true self of the individual.