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What does conative mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to a striving action.
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This unique fusion of the intellectual and the conative life the life of desire and action receives its most dramatic expression in Plato's doctrine of love, or eros.
It enters into every form of thinking and into many of our conative and emotional attitudes as well.
As to sentiments and emotions, they involve ideas and conative elements in addition to sensations and feelings.
Or is phenomenality present also in cognitve experiences of thinking such-and-such, or of perception bearing conceptual as well as sensory content, or also in volitional or conative bodily action?
The conative, as opposed to the cognitive or affective, relates to purposeful, but not necessarily ultimately rational, action.
Although they do not explicitly speak of an ingressive imperfect, they do mention the conative imperfect.

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