underdetermination en · NOUN
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Etymology
From under- + determination or underdetermine + -ation.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state or quality of being underdetermined
It is true that […] the questions of the justification of inductive inferences normally lead to further problems, associated with the phenomenon of the underdetermination of theory by experience.
2007 October 9, Manuel Pérez Otero, “The Humean problem of induction and Carroll’s Paradox”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 3, →DOI: