"act" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- CWBs are "active and volitional acts engaged in by individuals, as opposed to accidental or unintentional actions."
- According to this model, unconscious impulses to perform a volitional act are open to suppression by the conscious efforts of the subject (sometimes referred to as "free won't").
- Libet's experiments suggest to some that unconscious processes in the brain are the true initiator of volitional acts, and free will therefore plays no part in their initiation.
- Any composer's volitional acts are conditioned by historically situated habits, routines, beliefs and esthetic assumptions.
- Yet his life depends on such knowledge-and only a volitional act of his consciousness, a process of thought, can provide it.
- Cartesian theory holds that mental acts determine physical acts and that volitional acts of the body must be caused by volitional acts of the mind.
- Reminiscence has been described as "the volitional or non-volitional act or process of recollecting memories of oneself in the past".
- The volitional act of giving up one's life to save others also comes up in philosophy or evolutionary psychology when discussing concepts such as altruism and egoism.
- Consequently they decided to look for cerebral potentials in man related to volitional acts and to take voluntary movement as their research paradigm.
- The courts have long held that a finding of direct infringement requires a "volitional act" by the infringer.
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