Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With certainty; precisely; in a definite manner.
- Resolutely; with fixed resolve.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a determinate manner; definitely; ascertainably.
- adverb Resolutely; unchangeably.
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- adverb In a way that is
determinate
Etymologies
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Examples
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But the existence of phenomena cannot be known a priori, and although we could arrive by this path at a conclusion of the fact of some existence, we could not cognize that existence determinately, that is to say, we should be incapable of anticipating in what respect the empirical intuition of it would be distinguishable from that of others.
The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764
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Out of their vision sprang the most determinately pluralistic nation in the world.
Georgette Bennett, Ph.D.: One Nation Under God: Do You Need To Be A Good Christian To Be A Good President? Ph.D. Georgette Bennett 2012
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Its determinately unsophisticated dialogue is pitched to resonate with parents of the New Age persuasion.
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Similarly, if I named the cloud ˜Edgar™, then a similar trick lets it be true that “Edgar” is vague, while “Edgar is a cloud” is determinately true.
The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009
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“There is one cloud in the sky” is determinately true.
The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009
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WHAT THE F- This is determinately not what I thought it was...
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Objection: The supervaluationist solution makes some existentially quantified sentences, like “There is a cloud in the sky” determinately true even though no instance of them is determinately true.
The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009
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A precisification is admissible iff every sentence that is determinately true (false) in English is true (false) in the precisification.
The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009
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All the supervaluationist who holds that Sam's utterance is determinately true is committed to is that for each i, according to
The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009
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But intuitively our language is not that indeterminate: ˜plus™ determinately does not mean quus.
The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009
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