Sentence examples for have a volition from inspiring English sources

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According to Locke's conception of voluntariness, the motion of your arm is not voluntary, because it is not caused by any volition of yours (indeed, we can even imagine that you do not even have a volition that your arm rise).

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Second, that conditional has the following form: S would A if S were to have a certain volition.

According to SDT, there are 3 main psychological needs that influence motivation [ 26]; these are autonomy (the need to feel like you have a choice, volition, and an internal perceived locus of causality), competence (the need to feel you have the ability to make the change) and relatedness (the need to feel connected to others).

The women had a strong volition to manage on their own, which caused them to adapt their activities in several ways.

This principle, which can be found in many authors of the period (including Locke), dictates that any volition must have an idea behind it, that is, must have a cognitive component that gives content to the volition, which would otherwise be empty or "blind".

*Torre's lame-duck status, even if by his own volition, will have an impact if the Yankees start slowly.

But, unlike the wanton addict, the unwilling addict also has a second-order volition that her first-order desire to take the drug not be her will.

In the first instance it is accepted that the consumer, of his own volition, has a need that is filled by the description of the advertised product (but not necessarily by the product itself), whereas in the second the need is artificial and is stimulated entirely by the media.

Her status update:  This is to be shrouded in the mists of time, so I never have to confront my self-righteous 13-year-old political opinions All of childhood was this pretty much black pit of "Why can't I do what I want?" Feeling like I had a thinking brain with volition in this kid's body.

On such views, to have an ability is for it to be the case that one would act in certain ways if one were to have certain volitions.

He could not cause a person to be born before his parents (1.12.28 29), and he could not have made volition execute any choices but its own (1.1.23, 1.17.27).

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