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Conative  adj.  Of or pertaining to conation. "This division of mind into the three great classes of the cognitive faculties, the feelings,... and the exertive or conative powers,... was first promulgated by Kant."






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"Conative" Quotes from Famous Books



... workmanship, backed by an even more manifest sense that the animistic congruity of things must decide for a victorious outcome for the side in whose behalf the propensity inherent in events has been propitiated and fortified by so much of conative and kinetic urging. This incentive to the wager expresses itself freely under the form of backing one's favorite in any contest, and it is unmistakably a predatory feature. It is as ancillary to the predaceous impulse proper ...
— The Theory of the Leisure Class • Thorstein Veblen



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