 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pages
...Itcid admit this of external objects ?— H. [58S-590J exerting that dominion which it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in, or withholding it from any particular action." Every volition, therefore, implies a conviction of power to do the action willed. A man may desire... | |
 | 1847 - 632 pages
...Locke defines volition to be, " 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." No definition can be given, however, of a simple act of the mind that /will convey any idea of it to... | |
 | Hensleigh Wedgwood - 1848 - 156 pages
...defines volition or willing, as "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." Thus an intermediate act is interpolated between every action of the personal being and the motive... | |
 | Hensleigh Wedgwood - 1848 - 150 pages
...defines volition or willing, as " 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." Thus an intermediate act is interpolated between every action of the personal being and the motive... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1849 - 450 pages
...volition is defined by Locke to be " 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."* Dr. Reid defines it more briefly to be " the determination of the mind to do or not to do something... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 588 pages
...it ? 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. And what is the will, but the faculty to do this? And is that faculty any thing more in effect than... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1850 - 496 pages
...plain," says Mr. Locke, " is an act of the mind, knowingly exerting that dominion which it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it...in, or withholding it from, any particular action." Every volition therefore, implies a conviction of power to do the action willed. A man may desire to... | |
 | Leonard Woods - 1850 - 600 pages
...says ; " 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. And what is the will but a faculty to do this? And is that faculty anything more in effect than a power,... | |
 | Leonard Woods - 1850 - 600 pages
...says ; " 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. And what is the will but a faculty to do this? And is that faculty anything more in effect than a power,... | |
 | Claude Henri Victor Cousin - 1852 - 464 pages
...latter : " 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." Ibid. § 15. It may be seen that the theory of the will in Locke is quite as uncertain as the other... | |
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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. 
