The phrase "exercising free will" is grammatically correct and can definitely be used in written English.
It refers to the act of making a decision or taking action based on one's own independent thought and choice, rather than being influenced or controlled by external factors. Example: I believe that every individual has the right to exercising free will and making choices that align with their personal values and beliefs.
The defense argued that their clients were exercising free will, calling them "happy hookers".
The staff may believe they are exercising free will, but they are really doing Dacre's bidding.
"I've never been interested in alcoholics, druggies or crazy people, because they are not exercising free will".
"The law has to insist on the Enlightenment notion of people as actors exercising free will, but actors in the criminal justice system rarely fit that," he said.
As war novels go, The Yellow Birds is a triumph, mining the conflict in Iraq to investigate universal questions of the extent to which we are in control of our lives; the degree to which we are capable of exercising free will.
But what can be said to support the claim that an agent's causing a decision is his exercising free will?
Refreshingly, however, Mindwise is free of such neuro- or philosophical ruminations; it takes for granted that we and our fellow humans have minds, and can exercise free will.
Not only in the sense that individuals must be free to make their own decisions, to exercise free will, to not have their autonomy limited by algorithm.
Dr. Adler believed that the ordinary citizen had what might be called a philosophical duty to think clearly and exercise free will wisely.
The radical Reformers, especially the Anabaptists (whose name means "rebaptizers"), preferred adult baptism because adults could exercise free will and accept baptism.
The four families under scrutiny, who live within a few yards of each other, present a tableau of fallen humanity, trying to exercise free will in a cruel and absurd universe.
