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- noun The state or quality of being
overdetermined
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Thus re-worked, the idea of overdetermination can help us understand the meaning of such struggles, where the revolutionary situation does not 'mature' in one apocalyptic moment but proceeds through a series of protracted hegemonic struggles but where the political space is already divided into two camps.
Kafila 2009
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And if you cannot think of a single way to work around a concept such as overdetermination, then perhaps you should stop writing articles and give up any notion of attempting to teach it to others.
Wired Campus 2010
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[v] He called it the 'overdetermination' of contradictions.
Kafila 2009
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Advocates of non-reductive physicalism argue that this kind of overdetermination is benign, on the grounds that the two causes are not ontologically distinct ” the non-physical cause isn't genuinely additional to the physical cause (nothing more is needed for your feelings than your brain states).
Naturalism Papineau, David 2007
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7 For a use of the psychoanalytic concept of 'overdetermination' in political theory, see Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe,
MRZine.org 2009
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"overdetermination" was almost never used in RCP party writings, but his concept consciously illuminated the approach of the RCP writers (including myself) to how to view the complex (and dialectical) linkages between "base" and "superstructure" in analyzing events.
Kasama 2009
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In our previous chronicles of overdetermination, we've learned that everything makes you more likely to overeat and pretty much everything has more germs than a toilet seat.
Divorce Studies: Everything Causes Splits The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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In our previous chronicles of overdetermination, we've learned that everything makes you more likely to overeat and pretty much everything has more germs than a toilet seat.
Divorce Studies: Everything Causes Splits The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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In our previous chronicles of overdetermination, we've learned that everything makes you more likely to overeat and pretty much everything has more germs than a toilet seat.
Divorce Studies: Everything Causes Splits The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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In our previous chronicles of overdetermination, we've learned that everything makes you more likely to overeat and pretty much everything has more germs than a toilet seat.
Divorce Studies: Everything Causes Splits The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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