Similarly, rest mass and rest mass of 3 kilograms are a determinable and a determinate, respectively.
Many conservatives tend to get fixated on the fantasy that the constitution has a determinate meaning and that constitutional questions therefore have determinate answers.
The assumption that there must be a determinate 'yes' or 'no' answer to the question of whether or not the subject saw the disk is grounded, he argues, in an appealing but mistaken neo-Cartesian conception of experience.
Even in the case where we algorithmically decide a mathematical proposition, the connections thereby made do not pre-exist the algorithmic decision, which means that even when we have a "mathematical question" that we decide by decision procedure, the expression only has a determinate sense qua proposition when it is decided.
The prescription of a determinate mode of application for a concept is required for its consistent application, regardless of the question whether such prescription determines the meaning of the concept or whether it involves nontrivial choices.
Each thought is about a determinate subject-matter, and says something true or false about that subject-matter.[2] The question of the consistency of a set of geometric axioms is, as Frege understands it, a question about a specific set of thoughts.
The other dogma of empiricism, according to Quine, is that associated with each scientific or empirical sentence is a determinate set of circumstances whose experience by an observer would count as disconfirming evidence for the sentence in question.
To succeed in representing the nuances of a determinate activity?
The attempt to give pleasure to a reader, he said: a puzzle with a determinate solution.
On a blackboard, Carrie Tuterow wrote down the options: death, life without parole and a determinate sentence.
This parameter is succinct and has a determinate physical meaning.
