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Synonyms for indeterminate

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Synonyms for indeterminate

not precisely determined or established

having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex

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of uncertain or ambiguous nature

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not capable of being determined

not leading to a definite ending or result

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(40.) This is true of moments of time as well as bits of matter (being), each of which is indeterminately infinitely large and infinitesimally small, where each bit is specifically constituted through an infinity of intra-actions with all others.
Nevertheless, the obediential potency that is "naturally" constitutive of the intellect's motion toward the truth indefinitely discerned and the good indeterminately desired (until the intellect specifies the nature of its object by the light of revelation) is a "second act" that therefore stands (through gratia elevans) in proportionate relation to the agere actu received in the gratia operans through which God works every supematurally meritorious act.
Rejecting Plato's (and later Marx's) collectivist designs, Aristotle further declares that "we see that there is much more quarreling among those who have all things in common." (4) As the Christian heir to Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas held similar views, stating that "human affairs are conducted in a more orderly fashion if each man is charged with taking care of some particular things himself, whereas there would be confusion if everyone had to look after any one thing indeterminately." (5)
The television character "Larry" is finally "Everyman" living indeterminately, in an ambiguous postmodern landscape, unsure of his position and yet opposed to taking sides.
Finality is defined as "the upwardly but indeterminately directed dynamism' of world process." They argue, quite persuasively, that one can accept Darwinian evolution while still holding open the possibility for the contingency of the results.
However, even if this is a genuine cause, it cannot last indeterminately and must deliberately be limited in time and scope (Griffiths and Lucas 1995; Higgins 1997).
"Concerto" commenced with a jazzy, techno sound created by piano and bass clarinet, next adding jarring cymbal and gong, then woozy flute, proceeding into an indeterminately improvised synthesis.
Only 10 states said they don't house inmates in "single-celled segregation" indeterminately. (No state officially uses the term "solitary.")
You can't just keep him indeterminately locked up for no reason."
In other words, and in terms slightly different to his, the radical imaginary is of first order ontological primacy, autonomous in the sense that it is indeterminately open to forms that are created out of this activity.
The pervert was jailed indeterminately at Carlisle Crown Court.
Note that if incompatibilist free will exists, games of chance can exhibit ontological randomness since they are under the control of an agent acting indeterminately. Furthermore, so do pseudorandom numbers and random sampling--an ontologically indeterminate choice can start the random number generator.
quadrillians indeterminately vast numbers of square dancers
They are the ever-winding paths, the roads "less traveled by," the serpentine lines (2) that turn around and out of themselves, means of deferring indeterminately the arrival at a destination.
First, the principle of emergence: "Otherwise coincidental manifolds of lower conjugate acts invite the higher integration effected by higher conjugate forms." Second, the principle of correspondence: "Significantly different underlying manifolds require different higher integrations." Emergence and correspondence are situated within the general principle of finality, which states that "the underlying manifold is an upwardly but indeterminately directed dynamism towards ever fuller realization of being." These principles finally allow us to understand the heuristic structure of genetic method, the principle of development, which is "the linked sequence of dynamic higher integrations" (Lonergan, 1992: 477-478).