The phrase "acting otherwise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that someone is behaving in a different manner than expected or previously stated.
Example: "He promised to be on time, but he ended up acting otherwise."
Alternatives: "behaving differently" or "conducting oneself otherwise".
Thus, acting otherwise or, more precisely, failing to act on one's fundamental commitments, comes at the price of transforming who one is.
True, CNBC wasn't acting otherwise.
With the new management claiming to be conservative but acting otherwise, others will take center stage in the Tyco soap opera.
Guidance control, in this sense, requires that the mechanism in question be capable of recognizing and responding to moral and non-moral reasons sufficient for acting otherwise.
Many compatibilists about free will deny that this sort of ability to do otherwise is a requirement on freedom; even if they insist on there being some possibility of the agent's acting otherwise given some alternative possible set of desires, they do not hold that at the point of action, with all held constant, it must be possible for the agent to act otherwise.
If one insists upon a libertarian account of free will in which to be free with respect to an action requires the possibility of acting otherwise, then the connection between freedom and moral assessability entails that God's lack of freedom to do evil precludes God's being perfectly morally good.
Still, from the overwhelming success of "Titanic" -- paradoxically, one of his least-challenging performances -- DiCaprio has been relegated to a strange critical realm where everything he does, acting and otherwise, becomes an external commentary on his fame.
We hypothesize that increased expression of insulin signaling molecules in first degree relatives of people with type 2 diabetes, work in concert with increased levels of insulin as a compensatory mechanism, counter-acting otherwise reduced insulin signaling activity, protecting these individuals from severe insulin resistance.
Now it was late afternoon, her nerves were frayed and the second party scene cast was fidgeting, giggling and otherwise acting altogether too much like 7-year-olds.
[Isis] displayed the bodies of its own members whom it had murdered as a deterrent to other members who might consider disobeying orders or otherwise acting against its interests".
It's easy to blame NASA for promising too much, delivering too little, passing the buck, and otherwise acting like what it is--a bloated, middle-aged government bureaucracy.
