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volition

Philosophy an act of will as distinguished from the physical movement it intends to bring about

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Chapter 9 deals with the explicit volitive forms (cohortative, imperative, and jussive), the use of which in LBH closely resembles that in CBH, except in the case of Daniel 11, in which jussive, i.

The Verbal Tense System in Late Biblical Hebrew Prose

Against the previous review, we hypothesize that (H1a) entrepreneurial volitive desire is the closest determinant of both intentions (growth and necessity.

The desire that propels entrepreneurial intentions

The solution, believes Qara Koz, to the abandoned past is a promised future the scenario of the same volitive act that models the present from which she distances away.

Feminism and femininity in Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence

Attitude is a synthetic psychical construction gathering intellectual, affective and volitive elements.

Value motivational and attitudinal orientation of the kinetotherapist students in the physical education and sport faculty

When associated with negation, the progressive form of the verb can also convey a volitive meaning: ne-qay-st-ome "I don't want to eat" (NEG-eat-PROG-1SG), ne-pi-st-ome kulka "I don't want to drink anything" (NEG-drink-PROG-1SG anything), n-ga-ste keri "(s)he doesn't want to go home" (NEG-go-PROG.

The Domari language of Aleppo (Syria)

Hence, although the evolution of the research has shifted from considering intelligence as one of the main, if not the main, determining factor in academic achievement, to considering other personal factors with a volitive or motivational nature as predictors of the latter, it becomes necessary to: a) attempt to test the extent to which general intelligence or individual skills affect motivational variables; b) analyse whether the effect of the former on performance is mediated by the individual's motivation; and c) test whether motivational variables contribute to explaining academic achievement beyond general intelligence.

An explanatory model of academic achievement based on aptitudes, goal orientations, self-concept and learning strategies

The human being is "an intellective and volitive animal subject.

Contemporary applications of Rosmini's view on personhood: slavery and intellectual property abuse

49) The demons of the fathers are, therefore, functional to a new conception of evil linked to the volitive faculty, whose exercise is only possible thanks to the presence of an opponent.

Demonology at a crossroads: the visions of Ermine de Reims and the image of the devil on the eve of the great European witch-hunt