 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1722 - 640 pages
...is an Act of the Mind knowingly exertiag that Dominion it takes it felf to have over any part of a Man, by employing it in, or with-holding it from any particular Adion. And what is the Will, but the Faculty to do this ? And is that Faculty any thing more in effect than... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography - 1782 - 728 pages
...would prefer flying to walking, yet yet who can fay he ever wills it ? Volition, it is plain, is an aft of the Mind, knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itfelf to have over any part of man, by employing it in, or with-holuing it from any particular aftion. And what is the Will, but the... | |
 | Curiosities and wonders - 1795 - 690 pages
...P. defines to be ' that inclination in which the mind knowingly exerts that dominion it apprehendeth itfelf to have, over any part of the man, by employing it in, or withholding it from, fome immediate aflion.' To the exiftenceof volition, he obferves, underftandii\g and emotion are eflentially... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1796 - 556 pages
...would prefer flying to xvalking, yet who can fay he ever wills it? Volition, it is plain, is an act of the mind knowingly exerting that dominion it takes...employing it in, or with-holding it from, any particular action. And what is the will, but the faculty to do this? And is that faculty any thing more in effect... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1801 - 340 pages
...man would prefer flying to walking, yet who can fay he ever wilt it? Volition, ir is plain, is an act of the mind knowingly exerting that dominion it takes...employing it in or withholding it from any particular .action. And what is the will but the faculty to do this ? And is that faculty any thing more in effect... | |
 | John Locke - 1801 - 950 pages
...would prefer flying to walking, yet who can fay he ever ivillt it f Volition, it is plain, is an aft of the mind knowingly exerting that dominion it takes...itfelf to have over any part of .the man, by employing if in or v ithholding it from any particular aftion. And what is the •ufili but the faculty to do... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1802 - 610 pages
...moving the body is fufpended ? In the very accurate phrafeology of Mr. Locke, " volition is an adl of the mind, " knowingly exerting that dominion it..." over any part of the man, by employing it in, or with" holding it from, any particular a£tion." This act; of the mind, Dr. Darwin exprefies by the... | |
 | 1803 - 748 pages
...Locke has has performed with his ufual accuracy and candor. According to him, volition is " an afl of the mind knowingly exerting that dominion it takes...employing- it in, or withholding it from, any particular action." The definition given by Dr. Reid, though more concife, agrees exaftly with Locke's. " Volition,"... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 624 pages
...volitions; which LOCKE defines to be the act of the mind knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in, or with-holding it from any particular action : but what that exerting its dominion is, can only be known by consciousness. 6 J. a KCKE'I... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1803 - 676 pages
...is plain, fays Mr LOCKE, is an act " of the mind, knowingly exerting that domi" niori " nion which it takes itfelf to have over any " part of the man, by employing it in, or with" holding it from any particular action." Every volition therefore implies a conviction of power... | |
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Volition, it is plain, is an act of the mind knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in, or withholding it from, any particular action. 
