overdetermination
- noun
- /ˌoʊvərdɪˌtɜːrmɪˈneɪʃən/
- Formal
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sobredeterminación
- ... emphasis on ideology constructs an extremely exalted role for the ... intellectual, whose knowledge of some of the ... critical texts of the West enables him or her to "see through" the ideological overdeterminations that saddle the "mere" person on the street.
And so he's going to say this is an overdetermination, right?
- And so he's going to say this is an overdetermination, right?
Examples
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Repeated themes suggest contradictions, conflicts, and overdeterminations that give the text effect and that the text exploits.
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The braiding together of these varied themes is a classic problem in overdetermination.
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A famous registration of what I am calling the fatedness to significance is Freud's idea of the overdetermination of meaning in human action and passion.
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I assume that sexuality is a historical construct and that the public discourse about sexuality contains manifold overdeterminations in its codes.
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It is worth stressing how different this idea is, in spite of its apparent kinship, from Freud's concept of "overdetermination."
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" In Freud, overdetermination is "a consequence of the work of condensation" and signifies that "formations," like dreams or symptoms, must be attributed to a plurality of determining factors.
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Recent research has shown that the degree of overdetermination of the factors and the level of the communalities of the variables are the most important determinants of the sample size needed for accurate estimation of population parameters (Fabrigar et al., 1999).
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The overdetermination of environmental factors can lead to a complex understanding of climate change.
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In psychology, overdetermination refers to the idea that multiple causes can lead to the same behavior or outcome.
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The theory of overdetermination suggests that an event can arise from several independent factors, complicating analysis.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
overdetermination = determination (semi-transparent) = over + determine + ation
The prefix 'over-' suggests an excess or additional layer, but the specific philosophical meaning requires contextual understanding.
Etymology
Overdetermination comes from the parts over meaning 'too much' and determine meaning 'to decide' or 'to set a cause'. A helpful image is many people all pushing the same result — the outcome is 'decided' by more than one full cause, which is why the word means an effect with several independent causes.
