| Descartes builds on a familiar argument in the history of philosophy, an appeal to the involuntariness of sensory ideas. |
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| In other words, it was the involuntariness of a subject's behavioral response which characterized it as being a hypnotic response. |
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| But the falling man's unfreedom with respect to the act of falling is not explained by the involuntariness of his falling. |
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| The Crown, of course, can negative involuntariness, prove that it was a willed act, without establishing that there was in fact an intention to kill, without proving murder. |
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| Tolstoy is the great novelist of physical involuntariness. |
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| Still, in such situations, the relevant psychological states probably do not obtain across the board and any presumption about involuntariness should remain defeasible. |
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| As discussed above, the discussion of an overborne will has led to the confounding of the concepts of moral blameworthiness and moral involuntariness in the criminal law. |
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