Looking in, you behold another seamless white interior of unexpectedly indeterminate extent.
One big, brightly lighted wall looks solid at first, but then you discover that it's not, and that you are standing at the edge of a luminous space of indeterminate extent.
The thought that people deserve in proportion to their meritorious doings runs up against the fact that all such accomplishments depend to an indeterminate extent on native talent and favorable early socialization, sources of meritorious agency that are entirely beyond the individual's power to control.
As units of meaning are, by their nature, indeterminate in extent, however, such an interpretation would involve system-choices leading to fuzzy-edged and overlapping units, at best.
Without the blackness, the cat is to that extent indeterminate.
The word 'vague' is used partly because the same phrase will have a different reference when uttered in different contexts, but mainly because the identification of the individual in question is indeterminate, though to a varying extent.
To the extent one's ends are indeterminate in this way, they will not provide effective starting points for instrumental, maximizing, or even satisficing reflection.
While the need for closure does vary from person to person — some people are higher in baseline N.F.C. than others — it is, to a large extent, situationally determined: the more in flux and indeterminate our environment, the more we want to reach some sort of resolution.
He holds that sensations are literally modifications in the mind, but that they are highly indeterminate, or in later terminology lack determinate intentional objects, and that genuine understanding occurs only when and to the extent that the determinate ideas in the perfect intellect of God are disclosed to finite, human minds, to the extent that they are.
To assess the true extent of the outbreak, we evaluated two serological assays in order to reclassify the 116 patients with indeterminate case status.
Of the remaining 32 cases, 21 were for indeterminate M3/U3/B3 lesions, five for clinical and pathological mismatch, three for further clarification of core biopsy result, two for staging the extent of the tumour, and one for inadequate core biopsy.
