How to pronounce“volition”in English
unaware of having made a choice you're acting on something with some degree of
volition because you you it's not a reflex it's not like you know somebody
hit your patellar tendon and nuke it and so it's really interesting so you know I think you just have to you have to make that distinction and I probably should
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Definitions of “volition”
A conscious choice or decision.
“[…] And as the Understanding doth at once apprehend it as Good Abſolutely, or in ſome Reſpect, and Evil in other reſpects, and Comparatively a Leſs Good; ſo doth the Will at once continue to Love or Will it ſo farre as it is Apprehended as Good, and to Nill and Reject it as inconſiſtent with a Greater Good, or a hinderer of it. But if it fall out that the Inconſiſtency of theſe is not diſcerned or believed, or but Imperfectly, then may the Will by a Practical Volition Will them both.”
The mental power or ability of choosing; the will.
“Out of all the factors that can influence a person’s decision, none can match the power of his or her own volition.”
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