appetition

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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 Falckenberg, Richard

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

Animals are mere machines; they are bodies animated, but soulless; they lack conscious perception and appetition, though not the appearance of them.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

Einleitung in die Philosophie, Berlin, 1896, S. 135—apud Mercier, loc. cit.243.and also appetitive; as in mental life appetition is a natural consequent of perception.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

The antithesis of cognition and appetition gives the basis for the division into theoretical and practical philosophy.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard