appetition
Example Sentences
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For reason withdraws us from opinion, and not from appetition or imagination.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
Where the perceptions are conscious and rational appetition rises into will.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
All exercises of the Will are, in some degree or other, exercises of the soul’s appetition or aversion; or which is the same thing, of its love or hatred.
From Doctrine of the Will by Asa Mahan
Impulse or appetition was the principle in the soul which impelled to action.
From Guide to Stoicism by St. George William Joseph Stock
Now those who withhold their assent and doubt of all things take not away this, but make use of the appetition or instinct naturally conducting every man to that which seems convenient for him.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
