Overdetermination
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overdetermination-206-17818471
title:
Overdetermination
text:
Overdetermination occurs when a single-observed effect is determined by multiple causes, any one of which alone would be conceivably sufficient to account for ("determine") the effect. The term "overdetermination" was used by Sigmund Freud as a key concept in his psychoanalysis, and later by Louis Althusser. In the philosophy of science, the concept of overdetermination has been used to describe a situation in which there are more causes present than are necessary to cause an effect. Overdetermi
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When a single effect has multiple sufficient causes
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdetermination
date created:
2004-01-24T17:39:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T21:48:46Z
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