Sentence examples for true volition from inspiring English sources

Arnauld rejects this argument mainly because, like the other three a posteriori ones, it assumes that "God wills, by a true volition, the salvation of all men, and the conversion of sinners" (OA, 39 641).

In the end, while it is true that Will acts of his own volition, and while the choice he must make is one of consequence, the predicament feels planted rather than grown, as conspicuous as a mulched tulip bed set down among the cactuses.

Theistic intuitions clearly support the claim that it is necessarily true that God's creative volitions are a causally sufficient condition of the existence of every other concrete object in at least a weak sense.

It is less clear that they support the claim that it is necessarily true that God's creative volitions are a causally sufficient condition of the existence of every other concrete object in the strong sense.

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

It is true that Wyclif insists that even if God can never change from volition to non-volition, the fact that God wills p is in itself contingent, if p is not a theological truth (De volucione Dei, chap. 7, p. 192), but, like Bradwardine, he maintains that God's antecedent will is naturally prior to what He foresees.

Fanatics integrate desires and volitions of various orders in an intimidatingly coherent package; they remain steadfastly true to their deepest commitments like no others.

It is true that no one forced me to speak out; that was a decision made of my own volition.

For example, an early objection to quantum effects influencing human volitions was offered by philosopher J. J. C. Smart (1963, pp. 123 4).[15] Even if indeterminism was true at the quantum level, Smart argued that the brain remains deterministic in its operations because quantum events are insignificant by comparison.

"They did so of their own volition".

"Not of his own volition," he said.