volition

• Daschle's withdrawal was entirely of his own volition, and took everyone by surprise, including the White House. —  1115.org
• Their symptoms aren't a result of their own volition, and this definitely needs to be acknowledged and respected. —  News from www.rep-am.com
• There is no feeling and no volition which is not for the phenomenalist a content of consciousness and nothing else. —  Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
• It appears that my simplicity is greater than my powers of imagination The Duke of Argyll may not be aware of the fact, but it is nevertheless true, that when a man's arm is raised, in sequence to that state of consciousness we call a volition, the volition is not the immediate cause of the elevation of the arm. —  Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
• This susceptibility of the system to voluntary motions is termed voluntarity, to distinguish it from volition, which is the exertion of desire or aversion; these diseases will be treated of at length in the progress of the work Association. —  Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life

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