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Look up indeterminacy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Indeterminacy or underdeterminacy may refer to: Indeterminacy debate in legal theory Underdeterminacy

The indeterminacy of translation is a thesis propounded by 20th-century American analytic philosopher W. V. Quine. The classic statement of this thesis

In linguistics, referential indeterminacy is a situation in which different people vary in naming objects. For example, William Labov studied this effect

{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) Haspelmath, Martin (2011). "The indeterminacy of word segmentation and the nature of morphology and syntax". Folia

Indeterminacy, in philosophy, can refer both to common scientific and mathematical concepts of uncertainty and their implications and to another kind

have attempted to confront. In the 1950s, W.V. Quine argued for the indeterminacy of meaning and reference based on the principle of radical translation

part of an individual's idiolect. Linguistics portal Idioglossia Private language argument Referential indeterminacy Sociolect Harper, Douglas. "-lect"

and more constrained morphosyntactic coding, and points to relative indeterminacy in language and to the basic non-discreteness of categories". Olga Fischer

its own grammatical rules. He also pursued research in referential indeterminacy and is noted for his studies of the way ordinary people structure narrative

In semiotics, linguistics, sociology and anthropology, context refers to those objects or entities which surround a focal event, in these disciplines