Overdetermine vs Overdetermination - What's the difference?
overdetermine | overdetermination | Related terms |
(of a problem or question) To give too many constraints, so that no solution is available.
To determine in such a way that any of the determinant's components would be sufficient on its own to produce the consequence.
The state or quality of being overdetermined
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, passage=Option two, as above, involves systematic causal overdetermination . }}