Nevertheless, he assures us that whatever happens by chance is "determined and ordered according to this type of determinateness and order" (Wars, II.2, p. 34).
Moreover, this thesis of the determinateness of the future, they argue, must not be confused with determinism, the theory that there are laws whereby later states of the universe may be deduced from earlier states (or vice versa).
There are alleged asymmetries of "determinateness" of reality: It is sometimes claimed that past and present have determinate reality, but that the future, being a realm of mere possibilities, has no such determinate being at all.
One way of spelling out what is missing in the paracomplete language is to introduce a new notion of determinateness, so that the status of the Liar is that of not being determinately true.
Abelard also distinguished between determinateness and certainty.
At this stage, human embryos are said to be "whole living member[s] of the species homo sapiens … [which] possess the epigenetic primordia for self-directed growth into adulthood, with their determinateness and identity fully intact" (George & Gomez-Lobo 2002, 258).
In other words, when one sympathizes with oneself, one installs oneself within duration and then feels a "certain well defined tension, whose very determinateness seems like a choice between an infinity of possible durations" (The Creative Mind, p. 185).
This power is identical with what we earlier called the Subject, which by giving determinateness an existence in its own element supersedes abstract immediacy, i.e. the immediacy which barely is, and thus is authentic substance: that being or immediacy whose mediation is not outside of it but which is this mediation itself.
Bollert argued that relativity theory had clarified the Kantian position in the Transcendental Aesthetic by demonstrating that not space and time, but spatiality (determinateness in positional ordering) and temporality (in order of succession) are a priori conditions of physical knowledge.
Kripke labeled this being grounded.[11] It has often been noted that there is also a more informal notion of determinateness or grounding, to which the formal notion expressed by D at least roughly corresponds (cf. Herzberger (1970)).
Another view which makes use of a form of determinateness is advocated by McGee (1991).
