Meanings
nounoverdetermination (uncountable)
- uncountableThe state or quality of being overdetermined
Option two, as above, involves systematic causal overdetermination.
2007 December 8, Patrick Toner, “Emergent substance”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 3, →DOI
Origin
From over- + determination or overdetermine + -ation. .
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