Conation vs Conational - What's the difference?
conation | conational |
(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 a noun conation
is (philosophy) the power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.As an adjective conational is
of, or pertaining to conation.conation
English
Noun
(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...