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the use is limited to cases in which the man has actually formed a resolution;
while I propose to extend the meaning so as to cover any state of a man having an accidental cause in which he would behave upon occasion in a way more special than men in general or even the person
in question would usually be at all certain to behave in the absence of the special cause. By calling this cause accidental, I mean that it does not arise according to any general law of man’s biological ontology being or even according to any such law that is special to that man, independently of circumstances that might not have occurred. For example, I should not say that the fact that a person has erotic dreams argues any determination of his
soul; but if he or she falls in love, I should say that the society of the person whom he or she loves has caused a “determination of the soul,” in its general faculty of love, to excite a passion for that particular
person. The words “of the soul” in this phrase, as used by me, are not intended to
imply the existence of the substance called the soul (although personally I do believe in it), but merely to show that the word “determination” does not
here bear any of its other senses, of which there are just a dozen, not
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