scholarly journals The Power of Will to Survive: A Case Report

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-125
Author(s):  
Gitumoni Konwar ◽  
Urmijyoti Deori
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Vocal Cord ◽  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Cervical Injury ◽  
The Will ◽  
Will Power

The will to survive is very essential for someone to keep himself struggle until he survives a dreadful situation. This perfectly matches with a case of a man surviving an accident. A 35 year old man met with an accident and fell into a ditch with his motorbike on top of him and the handle of the motorbike pressed his vocal cord. Nobody noticed him falling into the ditch nor could he shout for help. He was all alone by himself in an isolated area where no help will arrive unless somebody sees him. He fell on the ground where the area of the soil under his head was raised which made even harder for him to move his head and free his vocal cord. To save himself he dug out the soil under his head so that he could move his head by creating some space by reducing the bumpiness of the soil. After digging out the soil for several hours he finally could move his head and free his vocal cord too. He shouted for help and soon some people gathered there who took him to the hospital. The victim suffered cervical injury, bruises and cuts on his body along with psychological trauma. Keywords: will power, survival, struggle, accident, dreadful situation.

Belief and the Will

Philosophy ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 47 (180) ◽  
pp. 95-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony O'Hear
Keyword(s):  
Long Period ◽  
General Account ◽  
The Will ◽  
Will Power ◽  
The Way

In this article, we will consider how far we might be said to be active in forming our beliefs; in particular, we will ask to what extent we can be said to be free in believing what we want to believe. It is clear that we ought to believe only what is really so, at least in so far as it lies in our power to determine this, but reflection shows that, regrettably, we do not confine our beliefs to what we have evidence for, nor do we always believe in accordance with the evidence we do have. So it is natural to conclude that non-intellectual factors may be at work here; such, at least, was the view of Descartes, who attributed error to the influence of our will in leading us to assent to judgments which go beyond the evidence presented by our infallible intellect. This view has some initial plausibility when we think of cases in which emotional considerations lead people to take up and genuinely believe things they have no evidence for, but it is not a view which has received much support from modern philosophers. So, in Part 1 we will look at criticisms levelled against Descartes' view by J. L. Evans, and in Part 2 we will see how far Descartes can be defended. Our conclusions here will lead us to give in Part 3 a general account of the influence of the will in beliefs. We will suggest that we are always responsible for our explicit beliefs, even though it is not true that we can simply believe what we like. Thus we will reject the idea that a man can consciously know something, and at the same time, by will power, believe the opposite. Belief is not then totally free, but we will argue that people do sometimes form beliefs which go against what they should and could believe, and that this can in a way be put down to the influence of the will. Finally we will consider some of the ways in which it is possible to influence our beliefs by willed acts over a long period of time, though this is not the way that we clami that the will might be said to play a part in every judgment that we make.

scholarly journals Impairment of Bilateral Vocal Cord Abduction in Parkinson's Disease: a Case Report.

1993 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-230
Author(s):  
Ken Ito ◽  
Tetsuo Semba ◽  
Yasushi Ohta ◽  
Tadashi Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Vocal Cord

Bilateral vocal cord palsy following endotracheal intubation: a case report

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 562-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anusha Cherian ◽  
Hemavathy Balachander ◽  
Mahesh Nagappa ◽  
Vanitha Rajagopal
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Vocal Cord ◽  
Endotracheal Intubation ◽  
Vocal Cord Palsy

Will, Power and Pretensionality

2021 ◽  
pp. 108-147
Author(s):  
Stephen Connelly
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
The Will ◽  
Will Power

Leibniz’s theory of the will is explored and linked to his theory of power, establish that active and passive potencies for him are of technical but ultimately lesser status that intellectual activity. This discounts these potencies as candidates for power, indicating that ontological power must be found elsewhere in Leibniz’s philosophy, in the notion that the possible claims or pretends to existence.

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