Conation vs Colation - What's the difference?
conation | colation |
(philosophy) The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.
* 1899 , George Frederick Stout, A Manual of Psychology , p. 234:
*1957 , Lawrence Durrell, Justine :
*:You can sit quiet and hear the processes going on, going about their business; volition, desire, will, cognition, passion, conation .
* 1987 , Marshall J. Farr, 'Cognition, Affect, and Motivation: Issues, Directions and Perspectives Toward Unity', in Conative and Affective Process Analysis , p. 347:
As nouns the difference between conation and colation
is that conation is the power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical while colation is the act of straining or filtering; filtration.conation
English
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(wikipedia conation) (en noun)- 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...
- [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...