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/kəʊˈneɪ.ʃən/ · noun
(philosophy) The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical..
[The] 'purposive conscious striving' aspect of conation is very likely a concept we need to treat separately if we are to study human motivation successfully […]
Any pleasing sense-experience, when it has once taken place, will, on subsequent occasions, give rise to a conation, when its conditions are only partially repeated...
You can sit quiet and hear the processes going on, going about their business; volition, desire, will, cognition, passion, conation.
Use conation when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Conation means (philosophy) The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical..
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[The] 'purposive conscious striving' aspect of conation is very likely a concept we need to treat separately if we are to study human motivation successfully […]
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