Define freewill operationally

[TonyChanYT]

I know that I have my own freewill. I just don't know how to define the term operationally.

Exodus 35:

29 All the Israelite men and women who were willing brought to the LORD freewill offerings for all the work the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.

The Bible assumes the existence of freewill without defining it. Dictionaries provide some lexical definitions of "freewill". For me, to use the term freewill in a logical argument, I need a precise operational definition. An example of an operational definition can be found in Wiki.

Let D = the operational definition of a freewill. Given an agent x, D(x) = {yes, no}.

Show me a D that will decide whether x has a freewill or not, so that anyone can apply this definition to x and decide whether x is an instance of freewill or not. The definition should be objective enough that no matter who applies it to x, the decision is the same.

Your definition must be consistent with the following:

1 Corinthians 7 talks about freedom and will:

37 But the man who has settled the matter in his own mind, who is under no compulsion but has control over his own will, and who has made up his mind not to marry the virgin—this man also does the right thing.

A similar concept is expressed in (BSB) Philemon 1:

14 But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness will not be out of compulsion, but by your own free will.

Philippians 2:

13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.

Ephesians 1:

5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

Make sure your definition can answer the following:

Does Satan have a freewill?
Did Pharoah in Exodus 9:12 have a freewill?
Does a sophisticated AI have a freewill?
Does a dog have a freewill?
How about a fish?
After the resurrection of all the dead, will anyone have a freewill?

Alternatively, instead of "freewill", one can speak of "sovereign volition" or "independent will".

 

[Tenchi]

I know that I have my own freewill. I just don't know how to define the term operationally.

Check out soft libertarianism.

A Case for Soft-Libertarian Freedom in Human Beings After the Fall — Evangelistic Apologetics

In this essay my goal is to lay out one philosophical argument in favor of libertarian freedom that I think serves as a philosophical defeater to the claim that libertarian freedom for humans in a fallen world is incoherent. This will be followed with one argument that the belief i

www.braxtonhunter.com

 

[TonyChanYT]

Check out soft libertarianism.

A Case for Soft-Libertarian Freedom in Human Beings After the Fall — Evangelistic Apologetics

In this essay my goal is to lay out one philosophical argument in favor of libertarian freedom that I think serves as a philosophical defeater to the claim that libertarian freedom for humans in a fallen world is incoherent. This will be followed with one argument that the belief i

www.braxtonhunter.com

Thanks for the link. The trouble is that I don't know what "libertine free will" means operationally.

Does Satan have libertine free will?
Did Pharoah in Exodus 9:12 have libertine free will?
Does a sophisticated AI have libertine free will?
Does a dog have a libertine free will?
How about a fish?
After the resurrection of all the dead, will anyone have a libertine free will?