单词 | premotion |
释义 | premotionn. Motion or impulse given beforehand; an instance of this. Chiefly with reference to divine action as determining human will. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > that which incites or instigates > beforehand premotion1607 1607 G. Markham First Pt. First Bk. Eng. Arcadia 141 The great and dreadfull Goddesse of Fortune.., whose motions were three times swifter then the Sunnes Chariot, was at that time shaping all worldlye premotion into the fashion of an almightie Wheele. 1635 J. Sibbald Holinesse to Lord in Funerals P. Forbes 122 All the danger should be from this Divine praemotion, and impulse. 1646 H. Hammond View Exceptions to Visct. Falkland's Disc. Infallibilitie 133 They contend..whether with this freedome of will..Physicall predeterminations or præmotions can consist. a1680 J. Corbet Humble Endeavour (1683) ii. vii. 18 It being to a good act, it is a Premotion perfective of our Nature, and to its well-being. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Physical Premotion, according to Alvarez, Lemos, &c. is a Complement of the active Power, whereby it passes from the first Act to the second; i.e. from a compleat, and next Power, to the Action. 1853 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (ed. 3) 976/2 Predetermination. In Scholastic Philosophy that concurrence of God which determines men in the performance of their actions, good or evil; called physical predetermination, or premotion. 1867 W. G. Ward Ess. Philos. Theism (1884) II. 172 It does not follow..because they are fixed that they proceed independently of God's constant and unremitting ‘premovement’. [Note] We do not say ‘premotion’, because this word has a special sense in the Thomistic philosophy, totally distinct from that here intended. 1887 Mind Apr. 266 This thesis is nothing more than the mere denial of ‘physical premotion’. 1909 M. H. Dziewicki in J. Wyclif De Ente vii. 195 This proceeds from man, but only as influenced by God's premotion; it is not always inevitably necessary. 1952 Jrnl. Philos. 49 470 Hence the theory of premotion of the human will which has led certain schools of Thomist though to a most diluted view of human freedom. 1991 Philos. Perspectives 5 580 In particular, these arguments are neutral with regard to whether God's general concurrence involves a ‘premotion’ in the secondary agent itself by which God moves it to act. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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