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Matter is a determinable made determinate by form.
In the Meno (74ff), Plato develops the notion of determinable and determinate.
Similarly, rest mass and rest mass of 3 kilograms are a determinable and a determinate, respectively.
There the properties themselves are determinates falling under a determinable, e.g., crimson and scarlet under red, red under color.
Why should it be different, if the determinate is physical and the determinable mental?
See the entry on determinates vs. determinables for more details.
The concepts of determinables and determinates were popularized by the Cambridge philosopher W. E. Johnson.
To say that it is indeterminate what properties an object appears to have is to say that the object appears to instantiate some determinable, but there is no specific determinate falling under that determinable that it appears to instantiate.
Like the distinction between genus and species, the distinction between determinables and determinates is a relative one; redness is a determinate with respect to color but a determinable with respect to specific shades of red.
The checked parameters are determinable for the given individuals using the requirement for determinability given in inequality (22).
25– 27 Brain mRNA expression and DNA methylation have been assayed in brains without determinable neuropathological evidence of disease.
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