volitional
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Factors in Volitional Act.—Such an act of volition, or will, is usually analysed in the following steps: 1.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
Volitional activity is no doubt the most prominent type of efficient causality in our mental life.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
A doctrine more precisely the reverse of the Volitional theory of causation cannot well be imagined.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by Mill, John Stuart
Volitional Action.—While it is obvious that the various types of action already described include a very large proportion of all our acts, yet they do not include all.
From The Mind and Its Education by Betts, George Herbert
Volitional and inhibitory faculties largely developed; may be said to be a man of strong will-power end self-control.
From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Lowell, Orson
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