Sentence examples for volition that from inspiring English sources

To mimic that behaviour, Dr Moussaid added a third rule, which made members of his crowd more molecule-like when they were at very close quarters a lack of volition that will be familiar to anyone who has been in a tight jam of humanity.With this third rule added, the model accurately reproduced the dynamics of dense crowds as well as those of sparser ones.

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

The agent wills his arm to move or produces a volition that his arm is to move, and it is this mental willing or volition that is aimed at causing his arm to move.

Locke assumes (reasonably) that in order for an action A to be voluntary, it must be caused (in the right way) by a volition that A occur (or, as Locke sometimes puts it, by a volition to do A).

For Bañez, then, the actual grace in question is a sort of supernatural beginning of volition that is produced in the human being by God and that infallibly results in a meritorious act of will.

Why doesn't the fact that you possess more of the very capacities for reasoning, insight, choice, and effective volition that qualified us as persons than I do render it the case that you are morally more considerable than I, have a higher fundamental moral worth?

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

Aquinas stressed that God and the angels have no passions; it is part of their happy condition that their only appetites are the active, rational volitions that belong to their very being.

As the philosopher H. Frankfurt argues, an individual is autonomous and an active agent if he or she has "second order volitions", i.e. that he or she wants certain desires to be part of his or her will [ 11], p. 16: "Having an integrated, stable, and coherent identity is an essential precondition for effective second order volitions that stay the same over time" [ 12], p. 353.

Empiricists generally have started from the important assumption that what a person is immediately acquainted with is his own sensations, ideas, and volitions; that these are mental and not physical; and, most important, that the things he knows immediately are essentially private and inaccessible to others.

Similarly, one may will a particular action (first-order volition) or one may will that one's first order volitions are of a particular sort (second-order volition).