volitional

ADJECTIVE
  1. with deliberate intention
    a volitional act
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  • Such conflicting behaviors are neither intentional nor volitional (well, they may be if displayed occasionally, but if these behaviors are typical, and noteworthy “for NOT being present today” they are probably not.) The Volokh Conspiracy » Adderall
  • Was Elsie Venner, poisoned by the venom of a crotalus before she was born, morally responsible for the "volitional" aberrations, which translated into acts become what is known as sin, and, it may be, what is punished as crime? Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
  • He wants to be the first nonspeaking autist to go away volitionally to school. Ralph James Savarese: The Silver Trumpet Of Freedom
  • The constant and interesting movement of others is the best of incitements to the abulic; motion directed into the channel of orderly exercise develops the inhibitory powers of the too impulsive child, and the child who is too much in subjection to his inhibitory powers, when liberated from the bondage of surveillance, and free to act privately on his own initiative -- in other words, when he is removed from all external inducements to exercise inhibition, is able to find an equilibrium between the two opposite volitional forces. Spontaneous Activity in Education
  • It therefore includes both cognitive and volitional deficiencies, and places the insanity verdict more squarely on the ground of incapacity.
  • Scarry asserts in Dreaming by the Book, — its faintness, two-dimensionality, fleetingness, and dependence on volitional labor — with the vivacity, solidity, persistence, and givenness of the perceptible world .... this comes about because we are given procedures for reproducing the deep structure of perception, and because the procedures themselves have an instructional character that duplicates the Seeing Is Reading
  • The suicide is by him insurant volitional place decides, is not cause by ab extra element.
  • In any case, automatism itself, though perhaps a kind of bypassing of the will, does not seem to me to represent necessarily an impairment of the agent's volitional capacities.
  • The first conservative assumption is known as a volitional theory of human nature. A Blueprint for Resolving the Current Crisis in the American Way of Life « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News
  • The word to thelema, it is well to note, sometimes denotes the will, that is, the volitional faculty, and in this sense we speak of natural will: and sometimes it denotes the object of will, and we speak of will NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
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