Volition may refer to:
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Volition (psychology)
Volition or will is the cognitive process by which an individual decides on and commits to a particular course of action. It is defined as purposive striving and is one of the primary human psychological functions. Others include affect (feelin ...
, the process of making and acting on decisions
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Coherent Extrapolated Volition
Friendly artificial intelligence (also friendly AI or FAI) refers to hypothetical artificial general intelligence (AGI) that would have a positive (benign) effect on humanity or at least align with human interests or contribute to foster the impro ...
, hypothetical choices and the actions collectively taken with more knowledge and ability
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Volition (linguistics)
In linguistics, volition is a concept that distinguishes whether the subject, or agent of a particular sentence intended an action or not. Simply, it is the intentional or unintentional nature of an action.Tournadre, Nicolas. The Rhetorical Use ...
, a distinction to express whether the subject ''intended'' the action or not
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Volition (company)
Deep Silver Volition, LLC (formerly Parallax Software Corporation and Volition, Inc.) is an American video game developer based in Champaign, Illinois. Mike Kulas and Matt Toschlog founded the company as Parallax Software in June 1993, developi ...
, a video game developer known for the ''Saints Row'' and ''Red Faction'' series
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Volition Records
Volition Records was a Sydney, Australia-based record label specialising in electronic music styles such as house, techno, synthpop and trance. It was founded by Andrew Penhallow in the late 1980s, but folded in the late 1990s.
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, a record label
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''Volition'' (Protest the Hero album), 2013
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''Volition'' (As Hell Retreats album), 2011
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''Volition'' (film), 2019 science fiction film
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