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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overdetermine.

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Examples

  • That complicates the anniversary; it "overdetermines" it, as we say in the trade.

    Three Years Later 2008

  • 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.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Anxious Black Woman 2007

  • 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.

    Forget Black President: Is America Ready for a Black First Lady? Anxious Black Woman 2007

  • 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.

    The Epistemic Basing Relation Korcz, Keith Allen 2006

  • 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.

    The Epistemic Basing Relation Korcz, Keith Allen 2006

  • 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.

    Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture 2010

  • The Process that mangles, overdetermines, and conceals the threads of actions (the effects) pointing back to subjective intentions.

    TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog 2009

  • 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.

    event mechanics 2009

  • In the former construal, the human overdetermines and conditions all other relations.

    Larval Subjects . 2009

  • As a result, it cannot be fully and finally pinned down to any particular conception because it transcends and overdetermines them all.

    MRZine.org 2009

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