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...
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Conation
//kəʊˈneɪ.ʃən//
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You can sit quiet and hear the processes going on, going about their business; volition, desire, will, cognition, passion, conation.
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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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