conatus
Example Sentences
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Ille stolide perrexerunt ad dicunt quod "illi conatus defecerint."
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013
It also follows that there is a conatus more interior, that is, the conatus to produce uses for the animal kingdom through vegetable growths, since by these animals of every kind are nourished.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John
Dialectic developments of the notion of self-preservation, of the conatus essendi, often ignore all the important facts of the actual process.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
And attraction, a kind of conatus accedendi, is the crown, according to the eighteenth century, of the series of secondary causes.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.
Moreover, within everything spiritual there is a conatus to clothe itself with a body.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John
