Conational vs. Conative — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Conational and Conative
Definitions
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.
