underdetermine

Generalizing, we might say that just as points underdetermine equations, so facts underdetermine theories.

Sticky Wants to Grab 2009

Just as content underdetermines force and force underdetermines content; so too even grammatical mood together with content underdetermine force.

Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla 2009

In this section, I will set aside features (i) and (ii) as being characteristic of any empirical domain: the data are always finite, and they always underdetermine one's theory.

Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008

Nietzsche scatter a dismembered sentence; their aim, to underdetermine the significance of tropes.

Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005

Rather, existing precedents usually underdetermine the results of the sorts of cases that tend to come before the Supreme Court.

Balkinization 2004

The claim is only that in the sort of high profile constitutional cases that come before the Supreme Court, precedents usually underdetermine the result, so that people with very different visions of the Constitution, and different varieties of what Levinson and I have called "high politics," can argue for somewhat different results given the existing body of materials and the various techniques of precedental argument.

Balkinization 2004

But philosophy alone cannot provide the necessary details; philosophical argument by itself would underdetermine a penal code and has no means to administer one.

Punishment Bedau, Hugo Adam 2005

Rather, existing precedents usually underdetermine the results of the sorts of cases that tend to come before the Supreme Court.

Balkinization 2004

The claim is only that in the sort of high profile constitutional cases that come before the Supreme Court, precedents usually underdetermine the result, so that people with very different visions of the Constitution, and different varieties of what Levinson and I have called "high politics," can argue for somewhat different results given the existing body of materials and the various techniques of precedental argument.

Balkinization 2004

We can make some educated guesses, but until people actually go through the training, their records simply underdetermine the question (with some rare exceptions blah blah blah).

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