Every Freewillist holds that the special force of free volition is applied to the pre-existing forces of our corporeal structure; he does not consider it as an agency acting in vacuo, but as an agency acting upon other agencies.
He explains that free will operates within the context of existing physical and mental forces, rather than in isolation.
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