 | Thomas Reid - 1815 - 474 pàgines
...by employing it in, or withholding it from any partieular aetion." It may more briefly be defined, The determination of the mind to do, or not to do something whieh we eoneeive to be in our power. If this were given as a strietly logieal definition, it would... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1822 - 322 pàgines
...by employing it in, or withholding it from any particular action." It may more briefly be defined. The determination of the mind to do, or not to do something which we conceive to be in our power. If this were given as a strictly logical definition, it would be liable to this objection, that the... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1827 - 706 pàgines
...by employing it in, or withholding it from, any particular action." It may more briefly be defined, The determination of the mind to do, or not to do something which we conceive to be in our power. If this were given as a strictly logical definition, it would be liable to this objection, that the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pàgines
...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 which we conceive to be in our power." He remaiks, at the same time, that " this definition u not strictly logical, inasmuch as /he determination... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1833 - 316 pàgines
...or, it may denote one separate and individual act of willing. He willed to take a walk with me. Tt was his will so to do. But there is another term which...that simple acts of the mind do not admit of one. 5. There is certainly a ground, in the nature and actual workings of the mental constitution, for the... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1833 - 348 pàgines
...not at all expressive of the faculty. Those terms which discriminate, and which restrict languag-o to a special meaning, are very convenient both in...that simple acts of the mind do not admit of one. 5. There is certainly a ground, in the nature and actual workings of the mental constitution, for the... | |
 | Leonard Shelford - 1833 - 964 pàgines
...will is put indifferently to signify either the power of willing or the act. It may be briefly defined the determination of the mind to do, or not to do, something which we conceive to be in our power. Every act of the will must have an object — the immediate object of will must be some action of our... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1834 - 360 pàgines
...faculty and the act of willing. But the act of willing has been further expressed by a term appropriate wholly to itself — and that is, volition. Mr. Locke...remarks, however, that, after all, determination is onlyanother word for volition; and he excuses himself, at the same time, from giving any other more... | |
 | Charles G. Finney - 1835 - 112 pàgines
...forth such mental and bodily acts. This is Reid's use of the terms, who describes an act of will as " a determination of the mind to do or not to do something which we conceive to be in our power." And this is the use of the term by a large portion of the class of theologians who style themselves... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 572 pàgines
...execute, or in our still frailer heart to conceive and desire." Brawn's Lecture*, Lecture 1. nient both in science and in common life. The will then...that simple acts of the mind do not admit of one. 5. There is certainly a ground, in the nature and actual workings of the mental constitution, for the... | |
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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. 
