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n. - The quality of being predictable with great confidence.

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  • There are alleged asymmetries of "determinateness" of reality: It is sometimes claimed that past and present have determinate reality, but that the future, being a realm...
  • Abelard also distinguished between determinateness and certainty.
  • Nevertheless, he assures us that whatever happens by chance is "determined and ordered according to this type of determinateness and order" (Wars, II. 2, p. 34).
  • Rather, this determinateness derives solely from the fact that at some future time the cause in question will be determined in its action to a given free effect.
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