Underdetermination

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being underdetermined uncountable

    "It is true that […] the questions of the justification of inductive inferences normally lead to further problems, associated with the phenomenon of the underdetermination of theory by experience."

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"It is true that […] the questions of the justification of inductive inferences normally lead to further problems, associated with the phenomenon of the underdetermination of theory by experience."

Etymology

From under- + determination or underdetermine + -ation.

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