Conation

Word CONATION
Character 8
Hyphenation co na tion
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Definitions and meanings of "Conation"

What do we mean by conation?

The aspect of mental processes or behavior directed toward action or change and including impulse, desire, volition, and striving. noun

An endeavor or attempt. noun

In psychology, voluntary agency, embracing desire and volition. noun

In sociology, social effort, especially that put forth by a community to transform its environment. noun

The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical. noun

The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical. noun

The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.

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The word "conation" in example sentences

Adulthood is often referred to as the point of conation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This can, of course be considered either a specific acceptance, or the more general and important aspect of human maturation called “conation”—the acceptance of responsibility. ❋ Steven Barnes (2007)

Especially pp. 111-115 on ˜pro-attitudes™, including pleasure, as explanatory (i.e., involving conation of various kinds, as it seems) and pp. 127-32 on enjoyment. ❋ Katz, Leonard D. (2006)

Accordingly our definition of desire becomes ‘conation-for-the-pleasant’: for the word ‘desire’ is the exact equivalent of the words ❋ Unknown (2002)

For often those who exhibit the conation do not perceive what is good or pleasant, so that their aim need not be really good or pleasant, but only apparently so. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Moreover, in the case of conations, and in any other cases where it applies, see if the word ‘apparent’ is left out, e.g. ‘wishing is a conation after the good’, or ❋ Unknown (2002)

[241] Here I am thinking of will in such a way that it includes not only decision and choice (the executive function of will) but also loves and hates, desire and conation (the affective function of will). ❋ 1932- (2000)

HILGARD, E. R. The trilogy of mind: Cognition, affection, and conation. ❋ Leo Goldberger (1993)

An alien brain, or a cybernetic one like Jaccavrie's, could think; it was aware; it had conation. ❋ ANDERSON, Poul (1981)

I suspect what he does is almost instantly to analyze the pattern, identify universals of logic and conation, go on from there to reconstruct the whole mental configuration-as if his nervous system included not only sensitivity to the radiation of others, but an organic semantic computer fantastically beyond anything that Technic civilization has built. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1973)

His references to man's relations with ani - mals and his treatment of the learning process of chil - dren give him a place in the history of genetic psy - chology; and his discussion of cognition, judgment, affection, conation, and the sense of beauty, showed some independence of thinking. ❋ MERLE CURTI (1968)

In philosophical terminology this word is used in two main senses: (1) in ethics, for the view that man is not responsible for his actions, which have, therefore, no moral value; (2) in psychology, for all actions which are not the result of conation or conscious endeavour. ❋ Various (N/A)

The cognition is indirect, the conation is indirect, only the effect is immediate. ❋ Walter Lippmann (1931)

"Desire," also, is narrower than what is intended: for example, WILL is to be included in this category, and in fact every thing that involves any kind of striving, or "conation" as it is technically called. ❋ Bertrand Russell (1921)

Volition, therefore, following McDougall, may be defined as the supporting or re-enforcing of a desire or conation by the cooperation of an impulse excited within the system of the self-regarding sentiment. ❋ Unknown (1916)

In other words, whatever the history of this conation may be, it is now a unity or whole. [p. 35] ❋ Unknown (1905)

This conation is an inheritance; it is present in the form of dissatisfaction with the present situation; it moves in the direction of ❋ Unknown (1905)

Now, however much this conation may be analysed, it resists being decomposed into a number of elements which make it up, for any such number, except in the very manner they are united, could not produce the situation. ❋ Unknown (1905)

The union of conation and cognition within the soul has brought forth everything that has happened outside the natural process of the physical world, and much even of that world [p. 129] has been made subservient to man. ❋ Unknown (1905)

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