Sentence examples for particular volition from inspiring English sources

It is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity, or the interposition of some invisible agent".

As we saw last week, in "Of Miracles", David Hume defined a miracle, rightly in my view, as "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity, or the interposition of some invisible agent".

But of course Piero della Francesca was depicting a miracle, which the Scottish philosopher David Hume described as "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent".

Hume also, in one of his definitions of "miracle," speaks of an event brought about "by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent".

More specifically, it is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent" (EU, 11.12n/115n).

Malebranche did allow that God can produce miracles by "particular volitions" that are not law-like.

In Book II, his focus is on the order of grace and he attacks Malebranche's claim that God does not distribute grace by particular volitions.

Moreover, Malebranche is distinctive in providing an explanation of God's action that distinguishes His general will from His particular volitions.

He says that there are "three or four of them, but they all amount to the same thing: There are graces that are inefficacious, and this would not occur if God gave His graces by particular volitions".

The chief "a priori" argument involves the claim that "to choose occasional causes, and to establish general laws for carrying out some work, indicates an infinitely more extensive knowledge than to act by particular volitions".

Arnauld grants that if God gives efficacious graces by particular volitions, then there are none that fail to have the proximate effect, which God intends they have by His absolute will.