Indeterminacy or underdeterminacy may refer to:
Law
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Indeterminacy debate in legal theory
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Underdeterminacy (law) In American law, underdeterminacy is a concept particularly relevant to originalism. It is distinct from ''indeterminacy''. The problem arises because even having established the original meaning of a clause of the Constitution, "''knowing the mea ...
Linguistics
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Indeterminacy of translation
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Referential indeterminacy
Philosophy
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Indeterminacy (philosophy)
Indeterminacy, in philosophy, can refer both to common scientific and mathematical concepts of uncertainty and their implications and to another kind of indeterminacy deriving from the nature of definition or meaning. It is related to deconstruc ...
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Indeterminism, the belief that not all events are causally determined
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Deterministic system (philosophy)
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Underdetermination
Physics
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Quantum indeterminacy
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Uncertainty principle
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Scientific determinism
Other
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Indeterminacy (literature) a literary term
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Indeterminacy in computation (disambiguation)
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Indeterminate system
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Aleatoric music and
indeterminacy in music
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Statically indeterminate
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Underdetermined system
* In set theory and game theory, the opposite of
determinacy
Determinacy is a subfield of set theory, a branch of mathematics, that examines the conditions under which one or the other player of a game has a winning strategy, and the consequences of the existence of such strategies. Alternatively and simi ...
* In biology,
indeterminate growth of an organism
See also
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Nondeterminism (disambiguation)
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Determinism (disambiguation)
Determinism is the philosophical position that for every event there exist conditions that could cause it.
Determinism has many meanings in different fields:
Philosophy
* Determinism
* Deterministic system (philosophy)
* Economic determinism ...
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Indeterminate (disambiguation)
Indeterminate may refer to:
In mathematics
* Indeterminate (variable), a symbol that is treated as a variable
* Indeterminate system, a system of simultaneous equations that has more than one solution
* Indeterminate equation, an equation that ...
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