In spite of our warnings he plowed ahead with the involuntariness of an automaton. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The familiar, involuntariness argument amounts to this. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
And again, the voluntariness or involuntariness of actions makes a great difference. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
I think the tendency to conflate disability and illness focuses on the involuntariness. From Wordnik.com. [The joys of impairment] Reference
Courts only care about claims of involuntariness if the supposed coercion comes from law enforcement. From Wordnik.com. [Missing Justice]
Reply Obj. 1: Fear excuses, not in the point of its sinfulness, but in the point of its involuntariness. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
My inability to rule out this sceptical hypothesis explains why the familiar involuntariness argument fails. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
Descartes builds on a familiar argument in the history of philosophy, an appeal to the involuntariness of sensory ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
This result allows Descartes to supplement the involuntariness argument, thereby strengthening the inference from line 1 to line 2. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
Though some such involuntariness argument has convinced many philosophers, the inference from 1 to 2 does not hold up to methodic doubt, as the meditator explains. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
But in the latter case, when you are undergoing your own pain and suffering, there is an element of involuntariness, and because of the lack of control on your part, you feel weak and completely overwhelmed. From Wordnik.com. [Training the Mind: Verse 1] Reference
Further, many attribute true involuntariness not only to suffering, but even to action. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference
In these words the Socratic doctrine of the involuntariness of evil is clearly intended to be conveyed. From Wordnik.com. [Apology] Reference
Nor does he assert in the Republic the involuntariness of vice, which is maintained by him in the Timaeus. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic] Reference
Again she tried to hold him, although, with equal involuntariness, her attempt was made in mild terms of resentment. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference
The public's assessment of risk is affected by control, trust, involuntariness of the activity and other non-quantifiable factors. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
Again, what is the difference in respect of involuntariness between errors committed upon calculation and those committed in anger?. From Wordnik.com. [The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS] Reference
And the attribution of evil to physical causes accords with the doctrine which he maintains in the Laws respecting the involuntariness of vice. From Wordnik.com. [Timaeus] Reference
The involuntariness of the figures and similes is the most remarkable thing; one loses all perception of what constitutes the figure and what constitutes the simile; everything seems to present itself as the readiest, the correctest and the simplest means of expression. From Wordnik.com. [Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none] Reference
Whether an act is or is not one of injustice (or of justice) is determined by its voluntariness or involuntariness; for when it is voluntary it is blamed, and at the same time is then an act of injustice; so that there will be things that are unjust but not yet acts of injustice, if voluntariness be not present as well. From Wordnik.com. [The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS] Reference
His actual behaviour is somewhat of that "killing-with-kindness" order which exasperates when it does not itself kill or actually reconcile; and, whether out of delicacy or not, he does not give his wife the only proof that he acknowledges the involuntariness of her actual misfortune, and forgives the voluntariness of her intended crime. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
It’s the involuntariness of employment, not the form of payment, that makes it slavery. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Mandatory “National Service” Violate the Thirteenth Amendment?] Reference
Republic the involuntariness of vice, which is maintained by him in the Timaeus, Sophist, and Laws (Protag. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference
Exceptions to Miranda like Quarles can only be exceptions to Miranda’s judge-made irrebutable presumption of involuntariness, not the 5th amendment itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Shahzad and Miranda Rights] Reference
Exceptions to Miranda like Quarles can only be exceptions to Miranda’s (judge-made) irrebutable presumption of involuntariness, not the 5th amendment itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Shahzad and Miranda Rights] Reference
Are you asking if the public safety execpetion to Miranda allows the admission of testimony that is in fact “compulsory”, and not just subject to Miranda’s irrebuttable presumption of involuntariness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Shahzad and Miranda Rights] Reference
I don’t completely buy that argument, it seems to me that the involuntariness that comes from a lack of informed waiver is the same regardless of the exigency of the circumstances, but the case law disagrees withme. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Shahzad and Miranda Rights] Reference
Isn’t it just a presumption of involuntariness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Shahzad and Miranda Rights] Reference
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