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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
free-will en · NOUN
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(alt-of, archaic, uncountable) Archaic form of free will.
Free-will, thus shown to be open to no logical objection, is to be affirmed on moral grounds. It is definable as "the power in virtue of which man can choose between two contrary actions without being determined by any necessity"; and the notion of "imprevisibility" is to be asserted, without qualification, as a part of its meaning.
1887 October, “New Books”, in Mind, volume 12, number 48, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 622: