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 of mere possibilities, has no such determinate being at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics] Reference

Abelard also distinguished between determinateness and certainty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories of Future Contingents] Reference

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).    From Wordnik.com.  [Gersonides] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Determinate Future] Reference

Impressed to the point of awe by the precise structural determinateness of all living things, Swammerdam went in fact to the oppo - site extreme of doubting the possibility even of epigenesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPONTANEOUS GENERATION] Reference

Incidentally, one should, of course, concede that scarlet itself is only a determinable relative to a more specific shade of it, so that more accurately one should speak of a scale of determinateness from most to least.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontological Dependence] Reference

Bollert argued that relativity theory had "clarified" the Kantian position in the Transcendental Aesthetic by demonstrating that not space and time, but spatiality (determinateness in positional ordering) and temporality (in order of succession) are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity] Reference

For present purposes, one may reply briefly that the determinateness of the truth in a future contingent proposition does not have to derive from its being the case that the cause from which a given effect will proceed is already, in its own power and ability, determined to that effect at the time or instant when it is true to say that the effect is going to occur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Determinate Future] Reference

The great difficulty here is the apparent determinateness of species.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences] Reference

The integration and determinateness of these faculties is the condition for any synthetic operation of reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Reason] Reference

| Africans determinateness enquired quivers replaces nowhere applicability negative alarms lacquerer shivered arachnid ulcer sil |.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet MySQL] Reference

According to St. Thomas, who developed the Aristotelean doctrine, the form, in so far as corporeal beings are concerned, gives specific unity and determinateness to the thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

For Hegel, "'Absolute knowledge' was to be the form 'in which the pure consciousness of the infinite is possible without the determinateness of an individual, independent life.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Nor could we ever have a separate consciousness of the ever-identical self, because such a consciousness would be destitute of all determinateness or of quality; and consequently consciousness of self is dependent upon experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith"] Reference

In him, from the strength and determinateness of his nature as well as from the great extent of his writing, the philosophy of this interaction between the author as a human agency and his theme as an intellectual reagency might best be studied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III] Reference

You developed by a gradual, gapless, and internally directed process from the embryonic into and through the fetal, infant, child, and adolescent stages and ultimately into adulthood with your unity, distinctness, determinateness, and identity intact.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. News] Reference

Against the view that the intelligible universal in the intellect is divested of all specifying or individuating determi - nations, Al-Ghazali urges that everything in the intel - lect is derived from the senses and retains all the con - crete determinateness of sense experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Rothe — herein less consequential than Schleiermacher — goes beyond him in two respects: first, in that he carries the religious determinateness, the self-consciousness, even into the confessional phase; and, secondly, in that he undertakes to make this purely empirical fact the foundation of a system of speculation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.] Reference

But this self-consciousness is not mere self-consciousness, but is at the same time in some manner a determined one, is also a God-consciousness; the religious subject recognizes his self-consciousness not as an absolutely pure one, but as always at the same time affected by an objective determinateness, namely, the religious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.] Reference

In the essence of material things Aristotle further distinguished a twofold principle, namely the Form, which is the source of perfection, determinateness, activity and of all positive qualities, and the Matter, which is the source of imperfection, indetermination, passivity and of all the limitations and privations of a thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

(of works), although all these we say are again and again interrupted and thereupon produced anew; we yet have to understand that they are, in the beginningless sa/m/sara, subject to a certain determinateness analogous to the determinateness governing the connexion between the senses and their objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1] Reference

On the tragic side were the Miss Bertrams, Henry Crawford, and Mr. Yates; on the comic, Tom Bertram, not quite alone, because it was evident that Mary Crawford's wishes, though politely kept back, inclined the same way: but his determinateness and his power seemed to make allies unnecessary; and, independent of this great irreconcilable difference, they wanted a piece containing very few characters in the whole, but every character first-rate, and three principal women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mansfield Park] Reference

On the tragic side were the Miss Bertrams, Henry Crawford, and Mr. Yates; on the comic, Tom Bertram, not quite alone, because it was evident that Mary Crawford's wishes, though politely kept back, inclined the same way; but his determinateness and his power, seemed to make allies unnecessary; and independent of this great irreconcileable difference, they wanted a piece containing very few characters in the whole, but every character first-rate, and three principal women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mansfield Park] Reference

So likewise when one exerts the intellect (e.g. on the subject of first principles), although the object may not be quantitative, one envisages it as quantitative, though he thinks it in abstraction from quantity; while, on the other hand, if the object of the intellect is essentially of the class of things that are quantitative, but indeterminate, one envisages it as if it had determinate quantity, though subsequently, in thinking it, he abstracts from its determinateness.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Memory and Reminiscence] Reference

On the tragic side were the Miss Bertrams, Henry Crawford, and Mr. Yates; on the comic, Tom Bertram, not quite alone, because it was evident that Mary Crawford’s wishes, though politely kept back, inclined the same way: but his determinateness and his power seemed to make allies unnecessary; and, independent of this great irreconcilable difference, they wanted a piece containing very few characters in the whole, but every character first – rate, and three principal women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mansfield Park] Reference