Sentence examples for Determinable from inspiring English sources

After all, the only non-logical predicates in ψ are 'L' for the exact location relation and 'P' for the parthood relation, it's plausible that both relations are fundamental, and they do not seem to be related as determinate to determinable or as determinates of the same determinable.

This would make the prior probabilities logical probabilities determinable purely a priori.

It was Kant's great merit, Rehberg declares, to have shown that the first principle of morality— 'Act so that the maxim of your will becomes a universal law' is determinable by pure reason alone.

In the Meno (74ff), Plato develops the notion of determinable and determinate.

For example, Yablo (1992), suggests that mental and physical properties stand in the relation of determinable and determinate (just as red stands to scarlet), and argues that our conviction that a cause should be commensurate with its effects permits us to take the determinable, rather than the determinate, property to count as causally efficacious in psychological explanation.

But Kant thinks that it is also possible to interpret predication in the reverse direction: that is, from "determinate" to "determinable".

Matter is a determinable made determinate by form.

Absolute nothingness is infinitely determinable and its determinates form the actual world, but this "self-determination" occurs "without anything that does the determining," like an agency without an agent.

Her discussion focuses on a group of metaphysical relations what she calls the 'small-g' grounding relations that include token identity, realization, the classical extensional part-whole relation, the set membership relation, the proper subset relation, and the determinable-determinate relation.

Consider the determinable-determinate relation and the Aristotelian genus-species relation, two relations that are presumably among those that the proponent of the argument thinks that the grounding relation unifies.

Zimmerman's formulation does not repair a difficulty in Searle's, namely, that the red-colored paradigm fails to satisfy the definition of the determinate-determinable relation.