Sentence examples for volition in from inspiring English sources

Is there some element of volition in even the most irrational delusions?

That mystical lone wolf, just floating around of its own volition, in no way influenced or shaped by outside forces.

Still, he says, he has lately modified his message, giving more recognition to the role of volition in addiction.

Elected politicians in Dublin acted of their own volition in using taxpayers' money to pay private bank debts, but not in every case.

And Mr Clarke has endured worse indignities than being dispatched to the back benches (nominally of his own volition) in his 75th year.

And if he hasn't in fact been forced out of the closet, there will a particular kind of decision and volition in his emergence.

The DLPFC and ACC have prominent and distinct roles in volition, particularly in the formation and implementation of action plans.

However, he emphasized that there are relatively few such volitions in God.

As he puts it a few pages later, God's wisdom "holds His volitions in check, in the sense that not all of His volitions are practical volitions" (OM, 5 184).

One arrives at different theories depending on how one understands the volitions in question and how exactly these actions would hypothetically depend on them, but nonetheless these views constitute something like a unified family.

Thus, if the only grounds of continued existence are volitions in God's mind, rather than perceived items (ideas), then ordinary objects do not exist continuously, but rather pop in and out of existence in a lawful fashion.