motivity
Example Sentences
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They were appealing to a fictitious motivity, one not grounded in "the nature of things."
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
The history of human nature is glorious, even in its degeneracy, with the exhibition of this larger, nobler form of humanity asserting itself, triumphing over the intensities of the narrower motivity.
From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon
Here also seemed to be an unconscious corroboration of Albert de Rochas's experiments in the "externalization of motivity," as he calls it.
From The Shadow World by Hamlin Garland
Another idea, that of thermodynamic motivity, on which Thomson suggested might be founded a fruitful presentation of the subject of thermodynamics, may be mentioned here.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray
It is the mind in which this historical principle, this motivity which is not reason, is brought in contact with the opposing and controlling element as it had not been before.
From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon
