determinable

Etymology

determine + -able

adj

  1. able to be determined or limited
  2. (law">law) able to be decided or settled by law">law
  3. (law, postpositive) Of a tenure or estate in land, able to be determined on the occurrence of some event.

noun

  1. (philosophy) An attribute of something that is susceptible of determination into various states
    It is certainly not a Moorean fact that there could have been other determinables or combinations of determinables than those that there actually are. September 5, 2007, David Denby, “Generating possibilities”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 2, →DOI

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