The phrase "act of fixing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the process or action of repairing or correcting something.
Example: "The act of fixing the broken chair took longer than expected, but it was worth the effort."
Alternatives: "process of repair" or "action of mending".
But it does seem that the sort of case Fumerton describes is a genuinely possible, indeed frequent, occurrence, and that the act of noticing one's pain is not a mere predication of one concept to another (e.g., predication of the concept pain to the concept present experience), but an act of fixing one's mental gaze, so to speak, on some particular feature or aspect of one's experience.
I know this may be obvious or unbelievable, but the simple act of fixing yourself up each day has a significant impact on how you feel about yourself.
A fellow Singaporean with a history of petty crime, Perumal's brazen acts of fixing moved beyond simply rigging games to include organising international friendlies featuring entirely bogus national sides.
Even in countries like Germany, where recent cases of match-fixing scandalized the entire nation, the act of actually fixing a match isn't a crime.
Gerrymandering is the act of deliberately fixing a boundary in order to give a political party an unfair advantage.
Wilson v. New (1917) sustained the Adamson Act of 1916, fixing minimum wages and maximum hours for railroad workers.
And at the same time, the process of fixing the act's existing flaws will begin — or rather, continue.
Indeed, a similar arrangement of charges was observed in the periplasmic binding protein OppA from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and DppA from Escherichia coli [56,57], where salt bridges to the peptide amino and carboxy termini at either end of the binding cavity act to fix peptides of specific length.
The act of 1887 fixed this amount at $2,000, exclusive of interest and costs.
By considering current variation in the human population, we are able to catch polymorphic sites "in the act" of becoming fixed.
Members of Congress should act to fix the law so that all receive equal treatment -- not because our Constitution requires it, but because their consciences do.
