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"His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery".
His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery'," said Traynor.
(This is bound to be true, considered artistically. In Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus says: "A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery".
Elsewhere in that same episode, as my friend Andrew Ervin noted, is the observation that "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery," though I'll contend that this is Stephen Dedalus's insight and, following Kenner, that it's figured as callow.
His errors are volitional and are portals of discovery".
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Their errors are your errors.
For example, in the sentence "Brutus murdered Julius Caesar," Brutus is volitional, while in the sentence "The hurricane killed many people," the hurricane is non-volitional.
Volitional: A noun or noun phrase is volitional if it refers to someone who is acting according to their own desires or will.
Note that the overlapping of and is volitional, because if, then both cases can occur and hence must be considered.
While all consensual sexual behavior is volitional, human beings do not choose their core sexual orientation.
Evoked BTcP may be volitional or non-volitional.
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