Etymology
Origin of agential
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Are there any other results in neuroscience that tell us something intriguing about our agential control?
From Scientific American ● Mar. 21, 2020
Chimps don’t have the same agential capacities as humans, but they arguably meet the requirements of agency.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 8, 2019
What about the effect of cognitive enhancements on agential error—the risk that humans eradicate themselves by mistake?
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2018
So cognitive enhancements appear to be a mixed bag as a person-engineering approach to mitigating agential terror.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2018
It passed not only into French, but also into the Germanic languages, replacing the Teutonic agential suffix which consisted of a single vowel.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
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