Concept

Volition

Overview

cognitive process by which an individual decides on and commits to a particular course of action

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That is to say, the volition is itself an incipient discharge along a line which previous experiences have rendered a line of least resistance. And the passing of volition into action is simply a completion of the discharge.
Herbert Spencer, First Principles
Names Volition several times; states what Volition is.
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Accordingly the fact of volition, _as a whole_, that is, if we include in it the element which makes it volition and distinguishes it from cognition, has _not_ the same relation to ethical propositions which cognition has to those which are metaphysical. Volition and cognition are _not_ coordinate ways of experiencing, since it is only in so far as volition denotes a _complex_ fact, which includes in it the one…
G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica
Names Volition several times; states what Volition is.
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For he that shall turn his thoughts inwards upon what passes in his mind when he wills, shall see that the will or power of volition is conversant about nothing but our own ACTIONS; terminates there; and reaches no further; and that volition is nothing but that particular determination of the mind, whereby, barely by a thought, the mind endeavours to give rise, continuation, or stop, to any action which it takes to…
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1
States what Volition is; names Volition several times.
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