Definition of "free will" []

• The ability or discretion to choose; free choice: chose to remain behind of my own free will. (noun)
• The power of making free choices that are unconstrained by external circumstances or by an agency such as fate or divine will. (noun)

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• "“And do you, Sister Alva Jane Merrill, take Brother Wade Barton by the right hand and give yourself to him of your own free will and choice?”"
• "Phineas Gage lost none of his neshama in the accident, but he had lost his ability to formulate within his window of free will those choices based on logic."
• "Among a long, distinguished list of psychologists and philosophers, William James, Kurt Lewin, and Karl Heidegger all stressed the role of the present and free will in human behavior."