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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overdetermine .
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Examples
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That complicates the anniversary; it "overdetermines" it, as we say in the trade.
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More than the unrestrained power hunger that we possess - which seems to be the flip side of the same coin that overdetermines our representation as oversexed, uncontrollable vixens and various "bad girls" - is the longstanding tradition of perceiving black womanhood as incongruous with the "cult of true womanhood," encapsulated in the mythical construct of the "lady," the ultimate paragon of decorum, virtue, and femininity.
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More than the unrestrained power hunger that we possess - which seems to be the flip side of the same coin that overdetermines our representation as oversexed, uncontrollable vixens and various "bad girls" - is the longstanding tradition of perceiving black womanhood as incongruous with the "cult of true womanhood," encapsulated in the mythical construct of the "lady," the ultimate paragon of decorum, virtue, and femininity.
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But, Tolliver claims, the student's belief about the period pseudo-overdetermines her belief about the length of the pendulum, and hence gets counted, on Swain's theory, as the basis of her belief about the length of the pendulum.
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Thus, the complicated line of reasoning pseudo-overdetermines the lawyer's belief that his client is innocent, and hence, on (DB), the lawyer's belief is based on the complicated line of reasoning in Lehrer's original example.
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Of course Lady Gaga is terrible and gets too much credit, but the way out of and around these kinds of horrible conversations and contrivances around music and pop culture in general is to get over this romance of transgression that ruins and overdetermines music to death.
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The Process that mangles, overdetermines, and conceals the threads of actions (the effects) pointing back to subjective intentions.
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Perhaps this is an echo of human will or any will for that matter, one that does not yet take on the consistency of agency, yet overdetermines the trajectory of elements that have a consistency and the character of this consistency.
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In the former construal, the human overdetermines and conditions all other relations.
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As a result, it cannot be fully and finally pinned down to any particular conception because it transcends and overdetermines them all.
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