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Conational vs. Conative — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Conational and Conative

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Conational

The aspect of mental processes or behavior directed toward action or change and including impulse, desire, volition, and striving.

Conative

The aspect of mental processes or behavior directed toward action or change and including impulse, desire, volition, and striving.

Conational

Of, or pertaining to conation

Conative

Of or pertaining to a striving action.
The conative, as opposed to the cognitive or affective, relates to purposeful, but not necessarily ultimately rational, action.

Conative

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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