Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to underdetermine
Participle: underdetermined
Gerund: underdetermining
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | underdetermine |
| you | underdetermine |
| he;she;it | underdetermines |
| we | underdetermine |
| you | underdetermine |
| they | underdetermine |
Perfect
| I | have underdetermined |
| you | have underdetermined |
| he;she;it | has underdetermined |
| we | have underdetermined |
| you | have underdetermined |
| they | have underdetermined |
Past
| I | underdetermined |
| you | underdetermined |
| he;she;it | underdetermined |
| we | underdetermined |
| you | underdetermined |
| they | underdetermined |
Pluperfect
| I | had underdetermined |
| you | had underdetermined |
| he;she;it | had underdetermined |
| we | had underdetermined |
| you | had underdetermined |
| they | had underdetermined |
Future
| I | will underdetermine |
| you | will underdetermine |
| he;she;it | will underdetermine |
| we | will underdetermine |
| you | will underdetermine |
| they | will underdetermine |
Future Perfect
| I | will have underdetermined |
| you | will have underdetermined |
| he;she;it | will have underdetermined |
| we | will have underdetermined |
| you | will have underdetermined |
| they | will have underdetermined |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | underdetermine |
| you | underdetermine |
| he;she;it | underdetermine |
| we | underdetermine |
| you | underdetermine |
| they | underdetermine |
Perfect
| I | have underdetermined |
| you | have underdetermined |
| he;she;it | have underdetermined |
| we | have underdetermined |
| you | have underdetermined |
| they | have underdetermined |
Imperfect
| I | underdetermined |
| you | underdetermined |
| he;she;it | underdetermined |
| we | underdetermined |
| you | underdetermined |
| they | underdetermined |
Pluperfect
| I | had underdetermined |
| you | had underdetermined |
| he;she;it | had underdetermined |
| we | had underdetermined |
| you | had underdetermined |
| they | had underdetermined |
Conditional
Present
| I | would underdetermine |
| you | would underdetermine |
| he;she;it | would underdetermine |
| we | would underdetermine |
| you | would underdetermine |
| they | would underdetermine |
Perfect
| I | would have underdetermined |
| you | would have underdetermined |
| he;she;it | would have underdetermined |
| we | would have underdetermined |
| you | would have underdetermined |
| they | would have underdetermined |
Imperative
| you | underdetermine |
| we | Let's underdetermine |
| you | underdetermine |
Verbs conjugated like 'underdetermine'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'underdetermine'
overdetermine,
foredetermine,
predetermine,
redetermine,
underdefine,
underexercise,
codetermine,
determine,
misdetermine,
self-determine,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From under- + determine.
Sample Sentences
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1967 A. H. Armstrong (ed) The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy
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He recognised that, in constructing his laws, the physicist must go beyond the ‘facts’ which inevitably underdetermine his theories. Boltzmann rightly accused both the idealists and the inductivists of having ignored this basic limitation on the certainty of all scientific hypotheses.
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1: All the available evidence of a certain type underdetermines which of several rival conclusions is correct.
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2: Only evidence of that type is relevant to believing one of these conclusions.
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3: Therefore, there is no evidence for believing one among the rival conclusions.
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The first premise makes the claim that a theory is underdetermined. The second says that rational decision (i.e. using available evidence) depends upon insufficient evidence. [Wikipedia Because arguments involving underdetermination involve both a claim about what the evidence is and that such evidence underdetermines a conclusion, it is often useful to separate these two claims within the underdetermination argument as follows]