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underdetermination

noun

Etymology

From under- + determination or underdetermine + -ation.

  1. derived from dēterminātiō
  2. derived from determinacion
  3. inherited from determinacion
  4. prefixed as underdetermination — “under + determination”

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being underdetermined

    • It is true that […] the questions of the justification of inductive inferences normally lead to further problems, associated with the phenomenon of the underdetermination of theory by experience.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for underdetermination. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA