determinable

adj, noun — 4 senses

determinable

adj

Etymology From determine + -able.

1

able to be determined or limited

2

Law able to be decided or settled by law

3

Law Postpositional Of a tenure or estate in land, able to be determined on the occurrence of some event.

Antonyms: indeterminable, undeterminable
Derived terms: determinableness, determinablism, fee simple determinable, predeterminable, term of years determinable
Related terms: determinability, determinably

determinable

noun

Etymology From determine + -able.

1

Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences 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.2007 September 5, David Denby, “Generating possibilities”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 2, →DOI:

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