Sentence examples for the determinable from inspiring English sources

For example, Yablo (1992), suggests that mental and physical properties stand in the relation of determinable and determinate (just as red stands to scarlet), and argues that our conviction that a cause should be commensurate with its effects permits us to take the determinable, rather than the determinate, property to count as causally efficacious in psychological explanation.

Maimon's skepticism arises "from the lack of the required ground for this use [of the categories], namely, the insight into the relation of determinability (that the subject, as the determinable, can be an object of consciousness in itself, while the predicate cannot be so in itself, but only as a determination [of the subject]).

It has also been found that the formal rate constant for transfer of Na+ is higher than the determinable limit by the method employed.

Only when the determinable relation between the subject and predicate of a judgment is constructed can real thought be reached; in empirical judgments about the world, no such determinable relation can be proved.

According to Husserl, all of the (actual or potential) experiences constituting that horizon share a sense of identity through time, which sense he labels as the determinable X they belong to.

The determinable X a given indexical experience belongs to, with respect to certain other experiences, helps us answer the question of what determines the reference of that experience, if not its ideal meaning species alone.

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.

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.

Zimmerman's formulation does not repair a difficulty in Searle's, namely, that the red-colored paradigm fails to satisfy the definition of the determinate-determinable relation.

Consequently, the GEC has the properties determinable by physical state of the magnetosphere, ionosphere, atmosphere and lithosphere.

One might object to Saucedo's version of the recombination argument by denying the assumption that parthood and location are both fundamental and are 'determinably-distinct' i.e., not related at determinate-to-determinable or as determinates of the same determinable (Donnelly 2010: 204, note 3).