See free will on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "fre will"
},
"expansion": "Middle English fre will",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English fre will, fre wil, fre wille.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "free will (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "46 54",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "54 46",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "70 30",
"word": "Free Will Baptist"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 30",
"word": "free-willer"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He did not say it of his own free will, but because his captors coerced him.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "They bound my limbs, depriving me of my free will.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:",
"text": "I say therefore, there is no likelyhood, we should imagine, the beasts doe the very same things by a naturall inclination and forced genuitie, which we doe of our owne freewil and industrie.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:",
"text": "Good my Lord, / To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did it / On my free-will.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezra 7:13:",
"text": "I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:",
"text": "I am impelled to this course by no one, but follow it of my own free-will.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1965, Harry S. Truman, 2:02 from the start, in MP2002-442 Former President Truman Discusses Problems Faced During the Potsdam Conference, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:",
"text": "We were faced with a great many problems at Potsdam. The most troublesome one was the refugee problem. They were coming- German refugees were coming from Czechoslovakia and then from Poland into Germany. And Stalin said they weren't coming. We explained to him that they were coming, and they were coming from the countries which he occupied. And then he said they were coming of their own free will and accord. Well, if they came of their own free will- he was just lying about it because they were not coming of their own free will. The same kind of free will affected my grandmother when the Federals ran off with her farm and the goods and things on it, and forced her to move off the farm. These people were forced to move and the Russians were doing it.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Voluntary choice; (the power of) unforced, uncoerced choice."
],
"id": "en-free_will-en-noun-IveQvEke",
"links": [
[
"Voluntary",
"voluntary#English"
],
[
"choice",
"choice"
]
],
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "74 26",
"word": "self-determination"
},
{
"_dis1": "74 26",
"word": "determinism"
},
{
"_dis1": "74 26",
"word": "existentialism"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "70 30",
"word": "agency"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 30",
"word": "freewill"
},
{
"_dis1": "70 30",
"word": "freewil"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Christianity",
"orig": "en:Christianity",
"parents": [
"Abrahamism",
"Religion",
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Philosophy",
"orig": "en:Philosophy",
"parents": [
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "46 54",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "54 46",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "45 55",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 61",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "31 69",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 64",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 65",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bashkir translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 61",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 65",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "29 71",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "32 68",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Danish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 66",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 64",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 65",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 64",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Galician translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 64",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 66",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 64",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Irish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 66",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 66",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 65",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Korean translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 66",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Latin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 65",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 65",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 65",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Manx translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 65",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Marathi translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "37 63",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Persian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 65",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "32 68",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 64",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 66",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "30 70",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "38 62",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Slovak translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "29 71",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 65",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 66",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tagalog translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "38 62",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Thai translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 65",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 65",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 64",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 66",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Welsh translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Some people deny that humans have free will, and argue that every thought and action is preordained by God."
},
{
"text": "You can bind my limbs, but you can never deprive me of my free will.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1869, Emmanuel Swedenborg, translated by R Norman Foster, The True Christian Religion:",
"text": "What is free will but the power of volition and action, and of thought and speech, to all appearance as of one's self?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012 January 12, “Free will and politics”, in The Economist:",
"text": "The new challenge to free will comes from a different direction: neuroscience's discovery that people's brains are a collection of diversely oriented modules, and that our understanding of our own intentionality is to a great degree a legitimating fiction which one module in the left hemisphere of the brain retroactively imposes over the decisions different modules make.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The ability to choose one's actions and make choices that are not predetermined by predestination, fate, etc."
],
"id": "en-free_will-en-noun-ETkZFPH5",
"links": [
[
"philosophy",
"philosophy"
],
[
"Christianity",
"Christianity"
],
[
"choose",
"choose"
],
[
"action",
"action"
],
[
"predetermined",
"predetermined"
],
[
"predestination",
"predestination"
],
[
"fate",
"fate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(philosophy, Christianity) The ability to choose one's actions and make choices that are not predetermined by predestination, fate, etc."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"Christianity",
"human-sciences",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "29 71",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"word": "自願"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 71",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zìyuàn",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"word": "自愿"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 71",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"word": "fri vilje"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 71",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"word": "vapaa tahto"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 71",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "voluntas"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 71",
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "svecchā",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "स्वेच्छा"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 71",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "própria vontade"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 71",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "libre albedrío"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 71",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "egen vilja"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥurriyyat al-ʔirāda",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "حُرِّيَّة الْإِرَادَة"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "azat kamkʻ",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "ազատ կամք"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "ixtıyar",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "ихтыяр"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "ixtıyar irke",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "ихтыяр ирке"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "svobodna volja",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "свободна воля"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lliure albir"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "franc arbitri"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zìyóu yìzhì",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "自由意志"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "svobodná vůle"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vrije wil"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "vapaa tahto"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "libre arbitre"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "libre arbitrio"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "freier Wille"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "b'khirá khofshít",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "בחירה חפשית"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "saorthoil"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "libero arbitrio"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"alt": "じゆういし",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jiyū ishi",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "自由意志"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"alt": "自由意志",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jayuuiji",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "자유의지"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "spōns"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "liberum arbitrium"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "slobodna volja",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "слободна волја"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aigney seyr"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "extiyâr",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "اختیار"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "âzâdkâmi",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "آزادکامی"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "wolna wola"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "livre-arbítrio"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "liber arbitru"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svobódnaja vólja",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "свобо́дная во́ля"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "saor-thoil"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "slobodná vôľa"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "libre albedrío"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fri vilja"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "malayang loob"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "เจตจำนงเสรี"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "özgür irade"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "svobóda vóli",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "свобо́да во́лі"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "ý chí tự do"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ewyllys rydd"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-us-free-will.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/En-us-free-will.ogg/En-us-free-will.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/En-us-free-will.ogg"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"free will"
],
"word": "free will"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjective-noun compound nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Arabic translations",
"Terms with Armenian translations",
"Terms with Bashkir translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Latin translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Manx translations",
"Terms with Marathi translations",
"Terms with Persian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
"Terms with Slovak translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Tagalog translations",
"Terms with Thai translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"Terms with Welsh translations"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "Free Will Baptist"
},
{
"word": "free-willer"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "fre will"
},
"expansion": "Middle English fre will",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English fre will, fre wil, fre wille.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "free will (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "self-determination"
},
{
"word": "determinism"
},
{
"word": "existentialism"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He did not say it of his own free will, but because his captors coerced him.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "They bound my limbs, depriving me of my free will.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:",
"text": "I say therefore, there is no likelyhood, we should imagine, the beasts doe the very same things by a naturall inclination and forced genuitie, which we doe of our owne freewil and industrie.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:",
"text": "Good my Lord, / To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did it / On my free-will.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezra 7:13:",
"text": "I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:",
"text": "I am impelled to this course by no one, but follow it of my own free-will.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1965, Harry S. Truman, 2:02 from the start, in MP2002-442 Former President Truman Discusses Problems Faced During the Potsdam Conference, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:",
"text": "We were faced with a great many problems at Potsdam. The most troublesome one was the refugee problem. They were coming- German refugees were coming from Czechoslovakia and then from Poland into Germany. And Stalin said they weren't coming. We explained to him that they were coming, and they were coming from the countries which he occupied. And then he said they were coming of their own free will and accord. Well, if they came of their own free will- he was just lying about it because they were not coming of their own free will. The same kind of free will affected my grandmother when the Federals ran off with her farm and the goods and things on it, and forced her to move off the farm. These people were forced to move and the Russians were doing it.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Voluntary choice; (the power of) unforced, uncoerced choice."
],
"links": [
[
"Voluntary",
"voluntary#English"
],
[
"choice",
"choice"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Christianity",
"en:Philosophy"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Some people deny that humans have free will, and argue that every thought and action is preordained by God."
},
{
"text": "You can bind my limbs, but you can never deprive me of my free will.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1869, Emmanuel Swedenborg, translated by R Norman Foster, The True Christian Religion:",
"text": "What is free will but the power of volition and action, and of thought and speech, to all appearance as of one's self?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012 January 12, “Free will and politics”, in The Economist:",
"text": "The new challenge to free will comes from a different direction: neuroscience's discovery that people's brains are a collection of diversely oriented modules, and that our understanding of our own intentionality is to a great degree a legitimating fiction which one module in the left hemisphere of the brain retroactively imposes over the decisions different modules make.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The ability to choose one's actions and make choices that are not predetermined by predestination, fate, etc."
],
"links": [
[
"philosophy",
"philosophy"
],
[
"Christianity",
"Christianity"
],
[
"choose",
"choose"
],
[
"action",
"action"
],
[
"predetermined",
"predetermined"
],
[
"predestination",
"predestination"
],
[
"fate",
"fate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(philosophy, Christianity) The ability to choose one's actions and make choices that are not predetermined by predestination, fate, etc."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"Christianity",
"human-sciences",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-us-free-will.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/En-us-free-will.ogg/En-us-free-will.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/En-us-free-will.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "agency"
},
{
"word": "freewill"
},
{
"word": "freewil"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"word": "自願"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zìyuàn",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"word": "自愿"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"word": "fri vilje"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"word": "vapaa tahto"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "voluntas"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "svecchā",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "स्वेच्छा"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "própria vontade"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "libre albedrío"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "natural inclination",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "egen vilja"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥurriyyat al-ʔirāda",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "حُرِّيَّة الْإِرَادَة"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "azat kamkʻ",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "ազատ կամք"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "ixtıyar",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "ихтыяр"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "ixtıyar irke",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "ихтыяр ирке"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "svobodna volja",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "свободна воля"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lliure albir"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "franc arbitri"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zìyóu yìzhì",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "自由意志"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "svobodná vůle"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vrije wil"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "vapaa tahto"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "libre arbitre"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "libre arbitrio"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "freier Wille"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "b'khirá khofshít",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "בחירה חפשית"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "saorthoil"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "libero arbitrio"
},
{
"alt": "じゆういし",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jiyū ishi",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "自由意志"
},
{
"alt": "自由意志",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jayuuiji",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "자유의지"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "spōns"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "liberum arbitrium"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "slobodna volja",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "слободна волја"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aigney seyr"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "extiyâr",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "اختیار"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "âzâdkâmi",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "آزادکامی"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "wolna wola"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "livre-arbítrio"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "liber arbitru"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svobódnaja vólja",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "свобо́дная во́ля"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "saor-thoil"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "slobodná vôľa"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "libre albedrío"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fri vilja"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "malayang loob"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "เจตจำนงเสรี"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "özgür irade"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "svobóda vóli",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "свобо́да во́лі"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"word": "ý chí tự do"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "ability to choose one's actions",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ewyllys rydd"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"free will"
],
"word": "free will"
}
Download raw JSONL data for free will meaning in All languages combined (12.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (95d2be1 and 64224ec). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.