Sentence examples for determinate from inspiring English sources
The word "determinate" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe something that is precise, definite, and fixed. For example, "The determinate measurements of the room allowed them to calculate the exact area available for furniture."
adjective
Distinct, clearly defined.
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.
On this view, "sensibility provides the differentials to a determined consciousness; the imagination produces from these [differentials] finite (determinate) objects of intuition; the understanding produces from the relations of these different differentials, which are its objects, the relation from which arise sensible objects".
(Note that Grünbaum used the fact that the point composition fails to determine a length to support his 'conventionalist' view that a line has no determinate length at all, independent of a standard of measurement).
Mr Sinker decided early on that he would have a clear, determinate ending.
The interaction does not have a determinate outcome, because the outcome is contingent on the participants' expectations, and the participants' decisions do not merely passively discount the future but also actively help to shape it.
In the 1960s and 1970s, California was a model for its success in rehabilitating criminals.But in 1976 California decided to switch from "indeterminate" to "determinate" sentencing.
Many conservatives tend to get fixated on the fantasy that the constitution has a determinate meaning and that constitutional questions therefore have determinate answers.
In 1977 Jerry Brown, governor then as now, signed a law introducing determinate sentencing, limiting the discretion of judges and parole boards.
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.
