To be sure, it is an open option to assume that the inconsistencies due to vague predicates and borderline objects are, as a matter of fact, only de dicto, due to merely semantic under- and over- determination of ordinary language.
Such are the struggles of over-determination.
Over-determination is a particularly interesting phenomenon as it besets efforts to arrive at explanations in the social sciences.
Post-modern thought consists in the intellectual licentiousness permitted by taking cognitive relativism and causal over-determination to be the only two permissible facts of things.
In any case, there is a strangely vivid sort of crispness about the bronzes, a kind of over-determination that produces a hyper-real effect.
For Freud, the multiplicity of satisfying explanations (over-determination) is characteristic of how dreams express content: namely, through displacements, substitutions and condensations, the logic of which can be revealed only by faithfully retracing the component words and images.
If a collaborative approach is pursued, it could also provide options for smaller, less-resourced intermediaries, ensuring that when individuals operate across multiple platforms, there is some institutional memory and coordination to prevent either under- or over-determination of individual requests.
A more responsible and reflective attitude sees cultural relativism and causal over-determination as, simultaneously, factors and constraints that must be taken into account in the search either for truth, or at least the most stable and robust account that can be given of a subject matter.
Extended moments of farce, cheesy songs and talking dogs, emblematic characters and place names (Benny Profane, San Narciso, Webb Traverse, the escapist webspace in BleedingEdge called DeepArcher): all of this anticness grants us an inch of real autonomy, amidst the choking over-determination.
These concern two types of case in particular, those of over-determination and of joint determination.
Ways of dealing with this include the use of over-determination methods and methods of obtaining more accurate wavenumbers.
