non-determinate

There is, then, a gap between the non-specific and non-determinate property and the way it is manifested in the particular.

Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

To my mind, in a non-determinate state, food = a (salad) + b (teak), where a = b.

Quantum interrogation Sean 2006

Ideas as non-determinate concepts produced by reason, and we have to understand them as tensions — what

The Transcendental: Deleuze, P. B. Shelley, and the Freedom of Immobility 1997

The true distinction between non-determinate and determinate perception is that the former is the apprehension of the first individual among a number of things belonging to the same class, while the latter is the apprehension of the second, third, and so on, individuals.

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

Such extension or continuance of a certain generic character is, on the other hand, not apprehended on the apprehension of the first individual, and perception of the latter kind thence is 'non-determinate.'

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

But also non-determinate perception has for its object only what is marked with difference; for it is on the basis of non-determinate perception that the object distinguished by generic character and so on is recognised in the act of determinate perception.

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

Perception in the next place -- with its two subdivisions of non-determinate (nirvikalpaka) and determinate (savikalpaka) perception -- also cannot be a means of knowledge for things devoid of difference.

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

We expect his team to consist of one military expert (male, stubbled), one technical expert (female, Asian), and three non-determinate other characters (at least one "funny") and a season cliffhanger after twelve episodes.

The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel 2009

I’ll have to look through my papers, but something like half of all self-identified transgendered individuals have some quite easily determined chromosomal or genetic variation that would make them ‘biologically’ either female or non-determinate.

Why Alas Needs Radical Feminist Woman Only Threads 2005