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  • 21Free-Will — Infobox record label name = Free Will image bg = parent = founded = 1986 founder = Hiroshi Tomioka status = Active distributor = genre = Rock country = flagicon|Japan Japan location = url = [http://www.free will.co.jp www.free will.co.jp] Free… …

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  • 22free will — 1. free and independent choice; voluntary decision: You took on the responsibility of your own free will. 2. Philos. the doctrine that the conduct of human beings expresses personal choice and is not simply determined by physical or divine forces …

    Universalium

  • 23free will — 1) N UNCOUNT If you believe in free will, you believe that people have a choice in what they do and that their actions have not been decided in advance by God or by any other power. ...the free will of the individual. 2) PHRASE: PHR after v If… …

    English dictionary

  • 24free will — Synonyms and related words: alternativity, animus, appetence, appetency, appetite, autonomousness, autonomy, choice, choosing, co optation, co option, command, conation, conatus, decision, desire, determination, discretion, disposition, election …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 25free-will — /ˈfri wɪl/ (say free wil) adjective 1. made or done freely or of one s own accord; voluntary: a free will offering. 2. of or relating to the metaphysical doctrine of the freedom of the will: the free will controversy …

  • 26free will — also known as soft determinism and championed by Hume, is a theory which holds that free will and determinism are compatible. According to Hume, free will should not be understood as an absolute ability to have chosen differently under exactly… …

    Mini philosophy glossary

  • 27free will — noun (U) 1 do sth of your own free will to do something because you want to, not because someone else has forced you to: He went of his own free will. 2 the belief that human effort rather than God or fate (2) can affect what happens in life …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 28ˌfree ˈwill — noun [U] people s ability to control their own lives, based on their own decisions • of your own free will if you do something of your own free will, you do it because you want to do it, not because you are forced to[/ex] …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 29free will —    This term (derived from Old English for noble or not in bondage and to desire or to want ) refers to the ability of a human to choose among options and to make decisions. Free will or self determination is the grounds for an authentic… …

    Glossary of theological terms

  • 30free will — noun Date: 13th century 1. voluntary choice or decision < I do this of my own free will > 2. freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention …

    New Collegiate Dictionary