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volitionally

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Volitionally (adv) means By choice, and with clear intention.

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By choice, and with clear intention.

"Must a person endorse, be satisfied with, or at least fail to feel alienated from what is volitionally necessary and what is inescapable if these are to be included within her self-conception?" — John Christman, Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism: New Essays (2005)

"The people in all of these examples use attention volitionally" — Richard B. Ivry, The Two Sides of Perception (1998)

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