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What does conatus mean?

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Noun
  1. An effort, an endeavour, a striving.
  2. A nisus.
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Strange that this great length of time should not have produced even one new organ, or the marks of a conatus to produce one.
The type of selection that we call here cultural selection is also implicit in the conatus, and we don't have to make too much of an effort to relate Spinoza's work with this idea.
The sixth proposition is so famous that it even has a name, the conatus.
Cultural selection doesn't differ from natural selection nor from fundamental selection, nor from political selection, in regard to the conatus.

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