Meanings
adjectivedeterminable (comparative more determinable, superlative most determinable)
comparative more determinable · superlative most determinable
- able to be determined or limited
- lawable to be decided or settled by law
- postpositionallawOf a tenure or estate in land, able to be determined on the occurrence of some event.
noundeterminable (plural determinables)
plural determinables
- human sciencesAn attribute of something that is susceptible of determination into various states
It is certainly not a Moorean fact that there could have been other determinables or combinations of determinables than those that there actually are.
2007 September 5, David Denby, “Generating possibilities”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 2, →DOI
Synonyms & antonyms
Opposite
adjectivecapable of being determined or limited or fixed
Opposite
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
German bestimmbar
- bestimmbarable to be determined or limited
Italian precisabile
- precisabileable to be determined or limited
Latvian noteicams, konstatējams
- noteicamsable to be determined or limited
- konstatējamsable to be determined or limited
Portuguese determinável
- determinávelable to be determined or limited
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Chicago
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