motivity

Example Sentences

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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 Garland, Hamlin

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 Bacon, Delia

The whole useful work obtained in this way was called by Thomson the motivity of the system.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

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 Bacon, Delia

They were appealing to a fictitious motivity, one not grounded in "the nature of things."

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton