confess
verb (used with object)
to acknowledge or avow (a fault, crime, misdeed, weakness, etc.) by way of revelation.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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And those that have adopted the belief in free will have confessed that reason did not lead them to that conclusion, but experience.
From To Infidelity and Back by Lutz, Henry F. (Henry Frey)