But he also holds that God "acts in the world only as a universal cause, whose general volitions are determined by the … changes … in creatures, as by so many occasional causes".
The first he says follows directly from the Representation Argument, whose conclusion was that passions, volitions, and actions can be neither reasonable nor unreasonable.
"I myself had never before heard the kind of noises I made, which emerged from me of their own volition and outside of my control," adds Gao, whose wife and two children fled to exile in the United States in 2009.
Patient 10 (anxiety on questionnaire, prescribed antidepressant) This was in contrast to the perceived behaviour of others whose anxiety and illness were seen as a matter of volition.
Certain truths for Malebranche hold of logical necessity: those truths whose denials are contradictory are independent of and insulated from divine volition.
So the passing of the musical pioneer whose distinctive raw sounds made my bones dance of their own volition as a teenager of the 1950's is as traumatic as the passing of the campaign of the first viable female presidential candidate is today to this mature woman, whose life's work has been about advancing equality and justice for women.
What distinguishes humans from the animals is not their possession of non-natural powers either of reason or volition, but the fact that human beings are "absolute sensualists" whose powers of observation and recollection extend to the whole of nature.
There exists a school of cod psychology, whose graduates should never be wholly disdained, that he may go of his own volition.
The character of Dr. Strangelove in Stanley Kubrick's film of that name, whose right arm must be restrained from giving the Nazi salute of its own volition, makes comic use of an Expressionist technique.
These include Goldman Sachs, whose growth equity arm had led the company's $51.5 million Series C round last year, as well as FirstMark Capital, Volition Capital and F-Prime Capital and F-Prime
