underdetermine

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Particularly in the theory of scientific explanation, to provide too few constraints to specify a unique solution.
    — 1967 A. H. Armstrong (ed) The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy He recognised that, in constructing his laws, the physicist must go beyond the ‘facts’ which inevitably underdetermine his theories. Boltzmann rightly accused both the idealists and the inductivists of having ignored this basic limitation on the certainty of all scientific hypotheses.

词形变化

underdetermines present,singular,third-person underdetermining participle,present underdetermined participle,past underdetermined past

词汇关系

反义词
overdetermine

词源

From under- + determine.
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