overdetermination

overdetermination

English

Etymology

over- +‎ determination

Noun

overdetermination (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being overdetermined
   • 2007 December 8, Patrick Toner, “Emergent substance”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 3, DOI:10.1007/s11098-007-9160-6:

     Option two, as above, involves systematic causal overdetermination.

Related terms

• underdetermination
• determination
• overdetermine
• overdetermined