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underdetermine

verb

Etymology

From under- + determine.

  1. derived from determino — “to bound, limit, prescribe, fix, determine”
  2. derived from determiner
  3. inherited from determinen
  4. prefixed as underdetermine — “under + determine”

Definitions

  1. Particularly in the theory of scientific explanation, to provide too few constraints to…

    Particularly in the theory of scientific explanation, to provide too few constraints to specify a unique solution.

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